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Jo anne, I've bloody told you what it is on t'other channel ! Be towd!

Water Supply History ....




Isolating Valve
Sluice Valve
Fire Hydrant

These two signs, white letters on a blue diamond, refer to hydrant and valve.
The fire service would use the hydrant only, whereas the valve would be operated only by the water company. The valve was used to isolate sections of the water main network, a network of trunk and distribution mains, which supply water to a number of zones, sometimes referred to
as District Metered Areas, for maintenance and repair.
Use of these marker plates stopped many years ago. The plates shown possibly date back as far as the early 1900's when the water mains were first laid.
Today, fire hydrants are marked by the yellow plate with a black H on them.