Sewer Vent Shaft

From Historical Hastings

Many of the towns underground sewers can accumulate inflammable gases, together with air-locks preventing correct operation and dead-ends preventing proper drainage.

To alleviate this, there area number of vent shafts (colloquially known as 'stink pipes') to release any trapped gases safely into the atmosphere. Many of these were installed during the rule of Queen Victoria, a time when any mechanism, no matter how mundane was ornamented.

There are main-sewer vent shafts known to have been installed during the Victorian period at the following locations;

A further one was concealed in the Albert Memorial
In the late 19th/early 20th Century, additional ventilation shafts were installed in the following locations;

Others that are undated existed outside numbers 5 & 28 Station Road[9], with a further one outside Dunelm on Sedlescombe Road North[10].

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