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My favourite feature when looking down in London (as a foreigner who has only visited a few times, briefly)... The Stanton Warrior drain cover: https://www.goo

My favourite feature when looking down in London (as a foreigner who has only visited a few times, briefly)... The Stanton Warrior drain cover: https://www.google.com/search?q=stanton+warrior+drain+cover&tbm=isch https://www.google.com/search?q=stanton+warrior+drain+cover&... They were produced by Stanton Ironworks in Derbyshire, which closed in 2007 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilkeston#Stanton_Ironworks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilkeston#Stanton_Ironworks. Many of them must have been replaced with a different brand since then as I noticed fewer had the Stanton Warrior brand when I was last in London in 2019. The British electronic music producers The Stanton Warriors took their name from these covers - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanton_Warriors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanton_Warriors. (Also, at adds with the old Google interview brain-teaser, "Why are manhole covers round?" - they're rectangular. So I guess it they don't care so much if these ones fall in the hole, probably because they're not holes that workers go down into).

antihero 4y ago
Also grime artist Newham Generals were named after the hospital.
jimnotgym 4y ago
Manhole covers are round if they cover a pipe and square if they cover a brick built manhole. Your note about them not falling in makes me wonder if Google had a different answer?
- SECProto 4y ago
  > Manhole covers are round if they cover a pipe and square if they cover a brick built manhole This is inaccurate as a generalization - in the three jurisdictions I've worked in, they're round if they're newer than ~1990, and mix of round and square (or two triangles that go together to make a square) if they're older than that. The frame and cover are replaced independently from the MH structure itself so the cover doesn't tell you anything about the makeup of the structure.
  - jimnotgym 4y ago
    Not quite true. The cover itself has to be supported by a structure. The frame itself is insufficient. If you put a round cover on a square hole it would cave in if a truck ran over it.
    - SECProto 4y ago
      Catch basins in my jurisdiction have round covers on a square structure. The cast iron frame is square with a circular hole in the top. Edit: for example https://maps.app.goo.gl/m8rR4vrPHBPTyXxo9 https://maps.app.goo.gl/m8rR4vrPHBPTyXxo9
- tomhoward 4y ago
  > Your note about them not falling in makes me wonder if Google had a different answer? It's the kind of question that's asked in interviews because it has several answers and a good candidate should be able to think it through and suggest a reasonable number of them and demonstrate their ability to creatively think through a problem. That round covers can't fall in seems one of the simplest and most important, given that a cover that falls in could kill or seriously injure a worker. https://www.livescience.com/32441-why-are-manhole-covers-round.html https://www.livescience.com/32441-why-are-manhole-covers-rou...
kurthr 4y ago
Also recommend this in Tokyo! Great artwork and interesting stuff with many remaining ones effectively unique as they were put in by a particular locality for a time and then others have been removed.

antihero 4y ago

Also grime artist Newham Generals were named after the hospital.

jimnotgym 4y ago

Manhole covers are round if they cover a pipe and square if they cover a brick built manhole. Your note about them not falling in makes me wonder if Google had a different answer?

SECProto 4y ago
> Manhole covers are round if they cover a pipe and square if they cover a brick built manhole This is inaccurate as a generalization - in the three jurisdictions I've worked in, they're round if they're newer than ~1990, and mix of round and square (or two triangles that go together to make a square) if they're older than that. The frame and cover are replaced independently from the MH structure itself so the cover doesn't tell you anything about the makeup of the structure.
- jimnotgym 4y ago
  Not quite true. The cover itself has to be supported by a structure. The frame itself is insufficient. If you put a round cover on a square hole it would cave in if a truck ran over it.
  - SECProto 4y ago
    Catch basins in my jurisdiction have round covers on a square structure. The cast iron frame is square with a circular hole in the top. Edit: for example https://maps.app.goo.gl/m8rR4vrPHBPTyXxo9 https://maps.app.goo.gl/m8rR4vrPHBPTyXxo9
tomhoward 4y ago
> Your note about them not falling in makes me wonder if Google had a different answer? It's the kind of question that's asked in interviews because it has several answers and a good candidate should be able to think it through and suggest a reasonable number of them and demonstrate their ability to creatively think through a problem. That round covers can't fall in seems one of the simplest and most important, given that a cover that falls in could kill or seriously injure a worker. https://www.livescience.com/32441-why-are-manhole-covers-round.html https://www.livescience.com/32441-why-are-manhole-covers-rou...

kurthr 4y ago

Also recommend this in Tokyo! Great artwork and interesting stuff with many remaining ones effectively unique as they were put in by a particular locality for a time and then others have been removed.