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Kent Stink Pipes                                      
Dan Glover
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January 2021

​Following the explanation of the Sewage Pipe on Quarry Hill, Dan Glover wrote to us from Kent to say, “Thanks for helping to decrypt the markings on a truncated suspected vent pipe in Herne Bay. We also have one marked with number 
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REGD NO 341995"  from Stone & Co.
 
The truncated stack pipe is on Spencer Road, Herne Bay. There are also a few shorter and probably more recent vents nearby along Station Road​. Several other full-height vents exist in other parts of the town but I think are from different foundries. I seem to remember the reference Saracen Foundry/ MacFarlane on one of them.

​Dan was correct about the manufacturer as the Historic Buildings Listing confirms: 
Sewer vent column. Circa 1870. Manufacturer W Macfarlane and Co. Glasgow. Cast iron. Comprises circular columns of two lengths of pipe, the lower with wider base, the upper with Corinthian capital with ball fitting, arrow wind-vane and spike with filigree crown. One of a series of similar sewer vent columns at Herne Bay.[1]
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Reference
[1] Bygone Kent, Vol. 15 No 9 pp.561-564, SEWER VENT COLUMN, Canterbury - 1380179 | Historic England
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