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Pissing Plates!

  • Richard
  • Feb 28, 2019
  • 1 min read

I took the opportunity of the WSUP Breakfast to wander a couple of streets further along to Fleet Street on my way back to the train to see the ‘pissing plates’, or more politely ‘urine deflectors’ in Clifford’s Inn passageway.


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Designed, we understand, to discourage passers by in the early nineteenth century from urinating along the walls of the alleyway as the urine would splash back on their clothes!


 
 
 

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