Water Board

The pavement scene outside our holiday cottage in Brading, with nine traps serving the water supply of the nine cottages.

One wonders whether in a new development, the nine small traps would have been rationalised into one larger one. While one can be fairly sure that you would not get sturdy cast iron any more, rather some thin galvanised substitute.

PS: I am surprised at myself now in that I did not attempt to lift the blue cross trap in an endeavour to work out what the blue cross signified.