MANHOLE COVER LOVERS

MANHOLE COVER PHOTO EXHIBITION -- SIGEAN, FRANCE, WINTER/SPRING 2023

I am considering having a photo exhibition of Manhole Covers in Sigean, France (where I live) sometime next year.

I would like to include some of the Manhole Covers you have been kind enough to share with our Group. In the notes accompanying the exhibition I will acknowledge who has taken each photo, and where the Manhole Cover is located.

If you do NOT want any of your Manhole Covers to be included in the exhibiiion please let me know.

If I do not hear from you by the end of September I will assume that it's OK to include your Manhole Covers in the exhibition. And for that I thank you in advance.

I'll provide more information about the exhibition later.

(Next week I'm going to Holland for a few days and hope to find some interesting Manhole Covers there.)

Such a nice idea, Val!

You can use my photos if you want (although the manhole covers on my photos aren’t the most exciting/beautiful/interesting..).

Thanks Heleen -- that's very gracious of you. I have about 400 photod of Manhole Covers so far, and it won't be easy to select those I will exhibit. It depends on the location -- there are 2 possibilities, one large in which I could show about 40 (I have enough frames for them); the other smaller, in which I could show about 20-25. And as you say, some are better/more interesting, more beautiful, etc than others. Regards, Val

THREE FROM PORTO, PORTUGAL -- OBRIGADA, PENN COATE

À coté de ll’autoroute du Soleil:

Encore en France:

FROM BAANHOLT IN THE NETHERLANDS AND LANAKEN IN BELGIUM

How funny, there is a manhole cover from Weert (a city in the south east of the Netherlands), too in the city Bilthoven (in the middle of the country)

Some manhole covers in The Hague (NL) 

And an unfortunate one sighing under heavy load):

WHO IS PAM? CARIEN MIGHT KNOW (see her posting on 21 September). SHE (PAM, that is, but maybe Carien as well) GETS AROUND

From Maastricht ( the Netherlands)

She's also been seen in Sigean (France)

And again in Sigean

I am not Pam

She is from the European Union though: 

ANOTHER EU MANHOLE COVER. Note the direction of the arrow: downwards. So this obviously a post-Brexit manhole cover

I AM NOT SURE THAT THIS IS A MANHOLE COVER (from Maastricht's Vrijthof) BUT IT SORT OF LOOKS LIKE ONE...AND IT'S ANDRE'S 73rd BIRTHDAY TODAY.

Happy Birthday, André (who is a violinist and conductor)

Happy birthday to André :-)

I think your photo fits well here, too.

By the way, it is World Postcard Day today, too.

A manhole cover in Alkmaar, a city in the west of the Netherlands , 

with the name Doetinchem, a city in the east of the Netherlands:

There were too many bikes lying on the floor due to a strong wind, too many to put them up all.. anyhow, bicycle wheels appear to be nice, semi-transparent manhole-cover-covers.

ANOTHER ONE FROM MAASTRICHT 5the Netherlands)

MANHOLE COVER AND/OR SOME SORT OF E-BIKE CHARGING POST? (rom Maastricht, the Netherlands)

Val, this is a water tap point.

Example from Poznań (Posen)......

Example from Rzeszów, town in south-east part of Poland....

Examples from Piła (Schneidemühl), a town halfway between Poznań (Posen) and the Baltic coast. Until 1945, it was German Reich territory.

Finally found a manhole cover in Amsterdam

which says it is from/in Amsterdam:

1 cover, 2 covers

Thanks Heleen.

Do you have any idea why (and when?) Dutch towns and companies put their names on Manhole Covers?

When i was in Maastricht (and two neighboring villages) last month, I found various Covers that included Terborg, Weert, Dordrecht -- but none from Maastricht.

I keep meaning to look at the design, manufacture and placement of Manhole Covers, but haven't got roud to it....yet.

Example form Poznań (Posen).....

WAVY GRAVY MANHOLE COVER FROM SIGEAN, FRANCE

Great finding! And matching with mail: it looks as if it is a (part of a) postMark!

OSLO, NORWAY, MANHOLE COVER WITH CITY'S COAT OF ARMS, from NICKOLAS ASK

TWO MANHOLE COVERS IN SIGEAN ABOUT TO BE REPAIRED

'PTT' stands for the French system of  'Post, Telephones and Telecommunications'. I don't know what 'SUR' stands for. But when work is carried out I may get to know.

More photos of these Covers to follow later

Mais, bien sûr!

FROM JIMMY ISAKSSON IN SWEDEN

OPEN MANHOLE COVERS IN CHENNAI, INDIA, FROM VIDJA

LONDON, ENGLAND, MANHOLE COVER FROM THOMAS SERRE

MANHOLE COVER WORK IN SIGEAN, FRANCE

This was the situation a few days ago: two Manhole Covers about to be repaired (or something)

The work has started today, and now there is only one Manhole Cover

This is where the other Manhole Cover used to be, but now it has gone. Where to??

I found it! Dumped at the side of the road. Will it be put back, I

wonder?

It looks rather sad and lonely. Would any of you Manhole Cover Lovers like to adopt it and give it a good home?

(Post and Package extra: it's very heavy)

FROM JACKIE SERRE, BORDEAUX, FRANCE

FROM VIDJA JAYAPRAKASH, CHENNAI, INDIA

Dear Raphael, Where are you and are you OK? You haven't sent us any Manhle Cover photos for 6 or so weeks, and I'm wondering how you are? Regards, Val

ANOTHER SELECTION OF SWEDISH MANHOLE COVERS FROM JIMMY ISAKSSON

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