MANHOLE COVER LOVERS

A PARISIAN MANHOLE COVER FROM PARISIENNE ANNE

TWO SWEDISH ONES FROM JOHNNY AND MARGARITA SKO0G

SOMEONE MADE A MISTAKE IN PUTTING THIS MANHOLE COVER BACK ON THE MANHOLE THE WRONG WAY ROUND!

Photographed by my son, David Herman, in Maastricht, the Netherlands.

Just tiles and stones, Val, no manhole cover. And the tiles are made for the blind :-)

But there must be something (a hole?) hidden under this covering object?!?

Great photo anyway :-)

I understand Val Herman was in Loughborough in 1984. So was this corporation waterworks cover, outside the old college building … maybe he stepped on it.

Thanks Alan,

Some people get blue plaques on walls, others get manhole covers.  I can't honsestly say I remember stepping on this one, alas.

ANOTHER ONE FROM SIGEAN, FRANCE (the Manhole Cover center of IUOMA)

Manhole cover in the city of Groningen, capital of the province of Groningen, showing the Martini Tower:

That's a nice one, Heleen.

THREE FROM BRUSSELS SENT BY ALF-OLE ASK

TWO FROM PETIT-SACONNEX, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND FROM JOANNE BOWCOCK

(I worked in Petit-Saconnex in the mid 1970's and maight have walked over or seen them!)

DEAR MANHOLE COVER LOVERS, TO KEEP YOU BUSY FOR A MINUTE OR TWO THIS SUNDAY, GUESS WHAT THIS IS?

(And 'No'  it is not any sort of animal)

Answer at end

ANSWER: It's a photo taken by a NASA satellite, space-ship, etc of something on Mars. Maybe it's a rather beaten-up Manhole Cover, and if so NASA should tell us more about it. There might also be a thriving Mail Art comunity on Mars about which more will be revealed to us in the future.

We've all seen the 'Face on Mars' — this is his teddy bear

A THREE-IN-ONE PHOTO SET OF MANHOLE COVERS FROM ALF-OLE ASK IN BRUSSELS

mail artist IUOMA member on Mars along with that "manhole cover bear" :-)

DIFFERENT SHAPE ENGLISH ONE IN THE WEST OF ENGLAND FROM HANNAH

DEAR MANHOLE COVER LOVERS,

Please post some more photos of Manhole Covers.

You must see lots each day. Photo ssome of them. Post the photos here.

This Group is kept going by just a few of its Members, and needs some more input to keep it alive and well.

If there's none, we may as well stop...which would be ssad.

Thankyou.

Val

for our dear VALENTINE :-)

THREE FROM MIM WHO IS ON HOLIDAY IN MEXICO -- thanks Mim!

FROM MIM -- LAS BRISAS, SAN MIGUEL DE ALLENDE, MEXICO

Thanks Mim!

Somewhere in Warsaw.....

Welcome back; Raphael. We missed you, and I was worried...

Somewhere in Warsaw ..... Thanks for remembering about me.

MAASTRICHT, THE NETHERLANDS, SINGLE  & TRIPLET

TWO FROM JANE ADAMS ON HOLIDAY IN TOKYO

Today I was in the Frisian city Heerenveen and met these manhole covers:

And also these, despite of the fact that Heerenveen is in the far North of the Netherlands and Weert in the far South province Limburg:

Manhole cover in the city of Zwolle:

Thanks Heleen. The Zwolle one is very good indeed. This afternoon I watched the Volta Limburg -- an Eijsden to Eijsden 150 km, 5 hour cycle race -- in, ...Limburg! I recognised lots of the roads I used to cycle on when I lived in Cadier en Keer (near Maastricht). I didn't see any manhole covers...but it was pouring with rain there, and very sunny here. Thanks again, Val

My pleasure, Val, thank you!

Probably you then (and now they) rode so very fast that you (and they) might have been too quick to notice the manhole covers? :-)

Here is another manhole cover, fresh from the camera, in Kampen (mentioning Nijverdal, both cities are in the province Overijssel)

ANOTHER ONE FROM JANE ADAMS IN TOKYO

THREE MORE FROM JANE ADAMS* IN TOKYO

(* Jane Adams, formerly Jane Carpenter, formerly Jane Herman)

From Haptic Erni in Hamburg:

a marker in the park :-)

Manhole cover in Noordwijk at the Sea (Netherlands)

In the town - north of the river Waal - named Lent, which used to be independent but finally has been caught by the city of Nijmegen (south of the river Waal, but thanks to the Waalsprong - ‘jump over the river Waal’ - Nijmegen is now notth snd south of the river..)

Somewhere in Warsaw .......

Rain/Drain water in the Dutch city Zwolle 

And ‘vuil water’ (dirty water) in the same city

Somewhere in Warsaw ....

Amazing indeed!

I think more manhole covers should express their thoughts and feelings. Though thoughts, feelings, dreams seem to be of little weight, while the manhole covers are rather heavy...

Somewhere in Poznań (Posen) ........ Plate bearing the town's coat of arms from the historic town seal.

Thanks Heleen, If I was a manhole cover and people walked and drove over me all day long without realising  what I was , what fuctions I served, etc, I'm not at all sure that my thoughts, feelings and dreams would be repeatable to anyone/anything other than another manhole cover!

A  NARBONNE MANHOLE COVER FROM HAN FISCHER

TWO SWEDISH MANHOLE COVER FROM JOHNNY SKOOG

TWO MORE NARBONNE MANHOLE COVERS FROM HAN FISCHER -- who says he is becling 'addicted' to Manhole Covers

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Same manhole cover, twice, in evening sun in Amsterdam:

‘Vuil water’ (‘dirty water’) manhole cover in beautiful clean picturesque Zaanse Schans, the Netherlands:

(The accompanying city Zaanstad has two whales in its coats of arms)

somewhere in Warsaw......