A Nod To Brent - a friendly thread, filled with frivolity, cream teas and pasties. Longing for the happy days in the South Hams 1947.

[gwrrob]

Can anyone tell me what the pipe is for on the right hand side of the footbridge. Why would there be a vent.

 

[colin penfold]

Lightening conductor?

[2ManySpams]

Can anyone tell me what the pipe is for on the right hand side of the footbridge. Why would there be a vent.

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Well, comparing the two sides, the post/pipe goes all the way to ground level. Hard to tell but is there an insulator on the top? Is it a power or telegraph pole??

[cary hill]

Well, comparing the two sides, the post/pipe goes all the way to ground level. Hard to tell but is there an insulator on the top? Is it a power or telegraph pole??

 

Described and looks like a vent pipe on the GWR plans for Brent.

[Mallard60022]

Well, comparing the two sides, the post/pipe goes all the way to ground level. Hard to tell but is there an insulator on the top? Is it a power or telegraph pole??

Looks a bit like a 'redundant' Insulator from the Telegraph?

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[MikeHemmings]

I think is a vent from the drains,

Telegraph wires were run in pairs so would have had two insulators on the pole.

 

Mike

[cary hill]

Here's another view:

 

 

Polite vent for the Ladies loo?

 

 

 

 

[gwrrob]

I think is a vent from the drains,

Telegraph wires were run in pairs so would have had two insulators on the pole.

Mike

I'm wondering if it's an added detail and wasn't on the footbridge when built.Most close up photos are from after the war.However, I think my model should have it.

[colin penfold]

if the station wasn't on mains drainage there might be a septic tank serving the toilets under there which would need venting. Would make sense to take it high up away from passengers' noses. cant think what else would need a vent there.

[Trains&armour]

Described and looks like a vent pipe on the GWR plans for Brent.

Agree, it's on the plan and it has the same cap as the vent on the down building near the gents. The plan is dated 19-9-97

 

[cary hill]

Are my eyes deceiving me? "It" appears to be there in this bad blow up of a 1930 "Britain from Above" photograph:

 

 

 

[A Murphy]

In South London they're called Stench Pipes... no really, there's a preserved one just round the corner from where I live, cast in Deptford in the 1850s and precisely to lift the stench up above all the nice new merchants' villas along Leigham Court Road.

 

Alastair M

Edited May 10, 2016 by A Murphy

[gwrrob]

Agree, it's on the plan and it has the same cap as the vent on the down building near the gents. The plan is dated 19-9-97

 

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Down station building vent.jpg

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You need to do me a nice proper drawing Mr T.

[Trains&armour]

On it...

[DavidR]

Stench pipes are quite common on older properties, where there was a possibility of a gas build up. On domestic properties they were topped with a sort of inverted hanging basket frame to prevent 'things' getting down the pipe and terminated about two feet above the roof line. They were permanently sealed at ground level.

[Ozexpatriate]

They were permanently sealed at ground level.

What does that mean precisely?

[Tim Dubya]

It means they went from the sewer to the roof as one continuous pipe (give or take a sealed joint or two). We have one made of asbestos - none of this cheap plastic rubbish!

[Mallard60022]

Most domestic 'waste' systems still have a vent pipe and it usually is a vertical pipe that is the same pipe that the 'waste' enters from the bogs and basins. Sadly we have a very ugly one on the house wall opposite the end of our garden. However one of ours is on the outside wall facing the street and houses opposite.

Nearby there is a genuine cast iron Stench Pipe on an older part of our estate. It used to have a lovely top piece that looked like the top of The Rocket's chimney (or those on those American Paddle Boat funnels). 

What exciting things we discuss at brekkis time on ANTB.

The rainwater drain pipe from the Brent footbridge would appear to go into the same system?

Lots oif good pics herehttps://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Pictures+of+historic+stench+pipes&espv=2&biw=1280&bih=675&tbm=isch&imgil=6Jqya_dQ0mJ-wM%253A%253BduprPZ9QE3mQ_M%253Bhttp%25253A%25252F%25252Fwww.draindomain.com%25252Fsoil%2525252520vent%2525252520pipe.html&source=iu&pf=m&fir=6Jqya_dQ0mJ-wM%253A%252CduprPZ9QE3mQ_M%252C_&usg=__UxmelOUsU79MtZ4mZzXPLLiE9yI%3D&ved=0ahUKEwjWo6fwrtHMAhXrDcAKHVuDAIsQyjcIQQ&ei=XM0yV9aFA-ubgAbbhoLYCA#imgdii=paPr1ZYmFAnNWM%3A%3BpaPr1ZYmFAnNWM%3A%3BzJLN0PRgY9qX-M%3A&imgrc=paPr1ZYmFAnNWM%3A

U. Bend

Edited May 11, 2016 by Mallard60022

[Stubby47]

Out of sequence but two for the price of one.

 

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At last, a pic includes the signal box coal bin

[gwrrob]

At last, a pic includes the signal box coal bin

Do you want some fresh shots then.

[Edwardian]

Do you want some fresh shots then.

 

Nah (I mean, the way you keep posting pictures, anyone would think this was a layout topic!)

[Stubby47]

Do you want some fresh shots then.

 

No, no, as and when they appear is fine, ta.

[gwrrob]

No, no, as and when they appear is fine, ta.

 

 

 

A new angle I think not shewn before.

 

[Edwardian]

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A new angle I think not shewn before.

 

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I especially like these!

[Captain Kernow]

Oh how I wish I could walk on those platforms in the actual location! CTMK and I had to content ourselves with walking past the site of the erstwhile, former Up station building this morning.