MANHOLE COVER LOVERS

Welcome to this new Group, MANHOLE COVER LOVERS.

It's part of my ongoing 'Urban Landscape Project' in which I take photos of what are usually neglected or ignored parts of my immediate environment, such as doors, shutters, lampposts, street lights, and, of course, mail-boxes -- all part of the great 'open-air metropolitan art gallery'.

Post photos of any interesting Manhole Covers  -- round, square or rectangular; small or large; old or new -- that you come across.

Here are some examples:

From Katerina in Thessaloniki:

From Jane Adams in Terrigal, NSW, Australia

From Erni Bar in Hamburg

And two from me from Sigean, France

Thank you for your invitation, Val! Despite of the fact that manhole covers (putdeksels in Dutch) are hard to send via mail (and probably will cause the sender a large amount of people who fell into the hole and want/threat to prosecute the mail artist) I think this a matching theme here at IUOMA. I noticed that several mail artists are fascinated by manholes, and also I love to see photos of ‘putdeksels’ from all-over the world. (And of course we can send newly made manholecoverdesigns to each other).

Hi Val, good to see this group at IUOMA!

I assume you want us to post PHOTOS :-)

Here is one that was placed in 1982:

...Val does not want us to "send" the real street metal, ha!

Do NOT remove manhole covers, ever...

we had a series of "thefts" here in Greece,

by those thinking they can get money for "recycling metal", 

they got arrested. 

a "square" from Athens:

Found in the region of the Ardèche, France

Dutch city of Groningen:

and Dutch city (forgot which), picture taken in 2019:

Thanks Heleen, Carien and Katerina -- your Manhole Covers do help to kick-start the Group.

Yes, send photos, and only photos, unless you can afford the postage on a lot of heavy metal (and a possible fine for stealing a Cover, and damages to people who fell in the uncoverd hole).

(Dean, aka Artist in Seine, now this could present a real challenge for you!)

In Thessaloniki, for underground phone cables:

Have not found any marked with 2000-2020, yet:

Thanks, Katerina, for the square Vodafone one.

As we get more pictures of Covers, it will be interesting to see if the same designs occur in different countries, or if they are country specific.

I have been thinking about the one from 1982 you sent me. How on earth do you remember what photos you took almost 40 years ago? You either have a very good memory, or a very good photo filing and cataloguing system, or both. (I can hardly remember what photos I took a couple of weeks ago!).

Do tell!

Val

Duh...the photos was taken on Sunday, when there are no cars on the city streets, as everyone goes to the seaside for the weekend now that we are "open". The circle sewer manhole covers in Thessaloniki are the same design, and most are stamped with a date as to the year they were placed on the road:

here is a 1995 one (at the corner of my street)

Found in the region of Moncarapacho, Portugal 

SANITARY SEWER, City of Las Vegas, D&L FDRY [Foundry]

20 OCT 2016 @ 13:44

St. Louis Art Museum lawn Metro St. Louis Sewer District  02 JAN 2019 @ 16:10

Not about a Manhole Cover, but about an' Undergtound System Sewer and Repair' business in Dublin from Mick Marsh.

Mellow yellow heavy metal...

and my shoe as I had to straddle by the edge of a major street!

and a square one or two for the water lines: EYAΘ in 2001

but before that date they were: ΟΥΘ

Thanks Katerina. The shoe is a bonus! Don't, whatever you do, get run-over while Covering-ing. Val

Here is a rare metal cover for natural gas lines:

AEPIO is Greek said: "AERIO" = GAS

Most gas lines have now been placed under the cement tile of the sidewalks and not under the street pavements:

remember in Greek "P" is "R" :-)

ΕΥΑΘ...Water and Sewerage Thessaloniki, 2001:

or with summer sandal, getting hot these days :-)

aha! 2016...more recently the public water and sewerage service became a "Corporation" = AE:

NORWEGIAN MANHOLE COVERS FROM ALF-OLE ASK IN OSLO

FROM DAVID AND LOUIS HERMAN IN MAASTRICHT, THE NETHERLANDS

TWO FROM JANE ADAMS FROM SYDNEY, NSW, AUSTRALIA

The first is rather curious as Jane was born and bred in the County of Durham, England, and lo and behold, she finds this Down Under.

circle and square street metal: 2004:

This is OTE: telephone cables underneath...

From a friend near Chicago: Mellow Yellow GAS

Look at these Japanese Manhole Covers!

Some of them are amazing

From Seattle - "City Light City Bright" utility cover

Simple "ΔΘ"

( Delta-Thita...not a fraternity)

underground works for "Dimos Thessaloniki"

This is artist Nathan Jackson's "Tlingit Whale".  

FOUR FROM THURSTON, ENGLAND, BY HANNAH POMMEROY

More from Hannah later

(Does anyone know how I can make these photos bigger -- the same size as the rest of them here?)

from 2016 Thessaloniki:

with cement seal so not to be stolen...

Unremarkable specimens found is Charlottesville, VA, USA.

Here few examples from Warsaw, Poland.IMG_20210614_145512.jpg