What are these, please ?

[EdwardCurrent]

Hello All.
Could someone kindly explain to me what these are please ?

Every house on an estate I visited had one, just curious...1960's ?
Many thanks,
Ed

 

[ColJack]

council letter box?

bigger pics might help..
how high off the floor were they and did they go right through the wall?

 

[PrenticeBoyofDerry]

Is it for shooting arrows out of

 

[joe-90]

It's for Council Tenants to shoot guns.

 

[Blasphemous]

It's for Council Tenants to shoot guns.

Yeah, and there's an old covenant that only allows a gun to be aimed 'up and down'!

Edward, that top picture looks as though there's a power cable coming out of the top of the plate with an Earth coming off. Is that right?

 

[EdwardCurrent]

Hello.
The 'plates' were fixed @ 6ft from pavement level.
Didn't measure them but looking at the pic's they are similar in height to a common housebrick, and about half as wide. .

The G/Y earth cable is a new ? 'main bond' to the gas, using the hole in the wall to reach the C/U. Interestingly there was a 'band' which looked like the initial way the gas service was 'bonded' running up to to the 'plate' ?. Maybe they are simply blanking plates from an 'old' service .

Not a good explanation I know but had to show interest in the electrical quote I was supposed to be concentrating on Anyhow I start the job 8-3-10 so will find have a good old poke around and let you know if the answer isn't found earlier.
Regards
Ed.

 

[Nige F]

The estate might have had communal oil storage for the oil fired heating. That was a meter/shutoff point for non-payers That was when Labour meant Socialism