Opercula Collection

Ironwork a059363
Swindon Wiltshire. A drain cover made by Affleck, Prospect Works, Swindon

Ironwork DP094924
Lower Marsh, Lambeth, London. View down to coal hole plate with dog. J.W.Cunningham & Co

Ironwork DP023298
Devonport Dockyard, Plymouth, Devon. Dry Docks 2 and 3 detail of cover of drainage mechanism. Made by Cochrane & Co Engineeers, Dudley, 1881

Ironwork BB040542
Broughton House, London Road, Dunton Green, Kent. An iron drain cover in the cellar

Ironwork a060331
Stanley Park, Blackpool, Lancashire. Blackpool Corporation sewers inspection cover plate dated 1926 made by W E Wooley of Accrington

Ironwork a060330
Stanley Park, Blackpool, Lancashire. Blackpool Corporation sewers inspection cover plate dated 1925 made by W E Wooley of Accrington

Ironwork a059420
Swindon, Wiltshire. A water stop tap cover plate made by Rye and Blackwell, Swindon

Ironwork a059416
Swindon, Wiltshire. A drain cover plate made by Bunce of Shrivenham

Ironwork a059414
Swindon, Wiltshire. A water stop tap cover plate made by Bays and Company, Swindon

Ironwork a059332
Swindon, Wiltshire. Detail of a GWR sewer inspection cover plate

Ironwork DP131063
Former Caffyns Garage, 24-26 Goring Road, West Worthing, Sussex. Exterior, Forecourt, detail of petrol tank filling opercula. Made for Anglo American Oil Co Ltd

Ironwork a059421
Swindon, Wiltshire. A cover plate made by Clenfield & Kennedy, Kilmarnock

Ironwork a059415
Swindon, Wiltshire. A pavement rainwater gully cover plate made by Longmead Foundry, Bath

Ironwork a059333
Swindon, Wiltshire. Pavement rainwater gully cover plate made by Affleck, Swindon

Ironwork DP095039
Arbour Square, Tower Hamlets, London. Coal hole plate outside number 48 Arbour Square

Ironwork DP094925
Lower Marsh, Lambeth, London. View down to coal hole plate with dog. J.W.Cunningham & Co

Vermetid worm colony. Vermetid worms, or worm snails, (Dendropoma maxima) are a species of seal snail gastropod. Vermetid gastropods are unusual snails in that they secrete the calcareous tube in

Chicken body louse eggs, SEM
Chicken body louse eggs. Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of the eggs of a chicken body louse (family Menoponidae) cemented to the base of a chicken tail feather

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