Museum Receives Unusual Gift Of Manhole Cover

The Museum has just been given this unusual but heavyweight donation – a manhole cover made for St Agnes builders’ merchant, and cast with his name, E W Friston. Mr Friston had a shop in Peterville at the junction with Water Lane, and lived at Polberro. There is a photo of the shop in Clive Benney’s book “Down to Dirty Pool”.

Friston manhole cover
Friston manhole cover