update

I'm just picking things up again after a sizeable break, mainly due to work and awful weather!!

The weather is still awful but fortunately work has relented a little bit.

I am in the process of setting up a website to house all things stinky pipe - following on from the aborted attempt about a year ago. I also have a MASSIVE database of stinkpipes I need to add to the map - it will probably take all year. Will also try to visit as many of those stinkpipes as I cna through the year - and add to the database as I go along. I will also look for a way to publish the database on the net so all stinkpipe fans can get stuck in too.

Also have a backlog of correspondence to get through - I thank you for your patience - all input is deeply appreciated and will be acknowledged. Eventually.

The blog will keep rolling on for the forseeable future as I find it useful to mark my sporadic progress and to show fairly instantly, anything new or interesting I discover.

I will also be looking for  way of embedding my interactive map - I have no flipping idea how to do it. Previous attempts have all failed!

The 2013 stinkpipe hunting season begins

I've been out on my bike, with my stinkpipe collecting kit, and have come back mainly with ones I already knew about but had, oddly, disappeared into the nether region of time gone past.

I managed to delete a sizeable portion of my stinkpipe archive a couple of years back and memory also seems to dump stuff it deems unimportant. Stinkpipes unimportant. As if!!

Avery Hill Road

So to get back into the swing of it, and because it was a rare sunny day, I cycled around my locality to mop up a few stragglers, and to update a few that I hadn't seen in about 7 or 8 years. Blimey, has it been that long?

Here's my new pics - click on the link to be whisked off to my Picasa albums

New Eltham
in New Eltham I rounded up aone I'd seen on my travels, on Avery Hill road; and discovered an entirely new one on Leysdown Road.

Mottingham
In Mottingham I rephotographed the one by the BP garage, and Court Farm Lane, and for the first time, the three on Dunkery Road.

Bromley
Revisited the Kings Avenue pipe, to see it has been repainted. I think it used to be white.

Catford
photographed all the Catford High Street pipes for the first time (below). The old photos were quite poor, taken from a car I believe. this time I got up close. Also found three entirely new ones, including a type of Ham Baker never seen before. a sort of missing link of stinkpipe evolution!

Greenwich
another one I'd sen but never photographed, In the middle of a short stretch of busy dual carriageway. It's of a design I've never seen before (right).

Woolwich
Three I pass regularly but have never stopped to photograph - nothing stunning, except that one appears to be half buried in the pavement!

Catford

Greenwich