Man hole covers

First topic message reminder :

NO!! not more bottomage

Apparently,  they used to have a portrait of their current King moulded onto Spanish man-hole covers !

When I was at school, primary school, I used to like asking awkward questions and that was one question I asked, which was "why are manhole covers called manhole covers, why are they not called womanhole covers" now most answers I got to questions like that were of a 'negative' nature, a common answer would be "shut up" but one day I asked the question about manhole covers to a young new teacher and she explained that the word 'man' reffered to both men and women as in the word 'mankind' and man is a short version of the word 'human' so yoo get words such as 'humankind' but 'man' when used in the context of 'manhole' meant 'mankind' which can refer to both men and women ...

They're slippery when wet!    (segunda mano informacion!)

For sale on ebay. £50.

Do they come with authentic chewy stuck on?

Dont councils rent chewing gum machine cleaners?

The cast iron coal hole cover in Coopers Row (Wigan Town Trail:

187 - 189 Union Street, Borough eh.?

Good find, Tonker

Guardian, 27th Feb 2019