Just for Fun No C&C will be given: One of my wife's hobbies..

Being a pretty accomplished mountain climber, my wife instinctively looks down as often ( maybe more )
than I do.

This has led her into maintaining a private library of manholes in all the countries, cities, towns and villages that we have visited across the world.

She insists that the way manholes are designed, maintained and placed speaks a lot about the place she is visiting and its people...

I am allowed to post only 1 or 2 from her collection...


What do you photograph?

Hi, Fahim,

One of the loveliest manhole covers I have seen! Nagyon jó. Köszönöm szépen!

Best regards,

Doug

Hi, Fahim,

As you probably know, I think the legend reads (roughly) "Budapest Electricity Works Property".

Best regards,

Doug

fahim mohammed said:

Being a pretty accomplished mountain climber, my wife instinctively looks down as often ( maybe more )
than I do.

This has led her into maintaining a private library of manholes in all the countries, cities, towns and villages that we have visited across the world.

She insists that the way manholes are designed, maintained and placed speaks a lot about the place she is visiting and its people...

I am allowed to post only 1 or 2 from her collection...

What do you photograph?

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You two never cease to amaze me!

Doug Kerr said:

Hi, Fahim,

One of the loveliest manhole covers I have seen! Nagyon jó. Köszönöm szépen!

Best regards,

Doug

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Doug Kerr said:

Hi, Fahim,

As you probably know, I think the legend reads (roughly) "Budapest Electricity Works Property".

Best regards,

Doug

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Hello there Doug,

Thank you for stopping by. Agree, it is a beautiful design. I never gave a thought to what the writing said, except for ' Budapest '. Appreciate you taking time to translate it. Do you speak Hungarian?

Ayesha has seen the response, and conveys her best to Carla and yourself.

Kindest regards.

John Angulat said:

You two never cease to amaze me!

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Thanks and regards from Ayesha and me.

Hi, Fahim,

fahim mohammed said:

Thank you for stopping by. Agree, it is a beautiful design. I never gave a thought to what the writing said, except for ' Budapest '. Appreciate you taking time to translate it. Do you speak Hungarian?

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Not really, although I have encountered the language on various occasions. (My late first wife was of partly Hungarian extraction, and I encountered the language a bit when interacting with her relatives and visiting her old neighborhood in Brooklyn.)

I have encountered a lot of technical stuff with markings in Hungarian, and so I thought I recognized the work művek (it means "works" and, as with the English word, that can mean both in the sense of a "plant" and also of an oeuvre!) and, from seeing various Hungarian military items, the word tulajdona, meaning (essentially) "property (of)". But I did a little Internet research to confirm my thoughts.

In the course of that, I found this site:

http://manholemiscellany.blogspot.com/2007/08/budapest.html

Perhaps Ayesha is familiar with it.

Ayesha has seen the response, and conveys her best to Carla and yourself.

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Thanks so much. We continue to admire her work, and yours, and of course the stories that go with it.

Best regards,

Doug

Doug, appreciate you giving me some background.

Ayesha has the url you supplied. No, she had not visited that site. I am asked to pass on
a very big thanks to you. She is surprised that someone would be interested in manhole designs!

Regards.

John Angulat said:

You two never cease to amaze me!

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Seconded. Not just a manhole cover, but a lovely manhole cover.

Thanks Fahim, and best to you, Ayesha and all

Mike

Mike Shimwell said:

Seconded. Not just a manhole cover, but a lovely manhole cover.

Thanks Fahim, and best to you, Ayesha and all

Mike

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Hello Mike. Thanks for the comment. I shall make sure she reads it.

Best to you and family.