Comments on: Street details: ‘SV’, ‘FP’, etc

By: Dave G

Dave G — Fri, 24 May 2024 16:35:03 +0000

I just found this which looks like a “Sluice Valve” design after all that

https://www.alamy.com/gate-valves-in-a-dug-trench-in-a-pavement-part-of-a-water-supply-network-in-the-uk-image519601474.html?imageid=1835ED5C-F038-4613-80D9-C50DF2F8D207&p=810080&pn=1&searchId=6a58daba522896851c15ff662d456036&searchtype=0

By: Dave G

Dave G — Fri, 24 May 2024 16:23:58 +0000

I have a SV plate on my property. For years I wondered what it meant. Google insists it indicates a “Sluice Valve”. Not convinced I asked a seasoned United Utilities chap. Turns out it is a “Service Valve”. Turn it off and also one further along the road and a stretch of pipe can be isolated. The tool used fits over a square, but tapered slightly to the top, and turned much the same as the stop tap serving a property. I have slept much better since!

By: Michael McDonald

Michael McDonald — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 09:10:10 +0000

Found a large stone at a farm gate access to an old pathway/ track. It is carved with letters ST above FP and dated 1735. It is good quality letter carving complete with serif. The farm track was bisected by a new road circa 1850 as part of a new railway scheme. Wondered if it was designating an old right of way, say “Statutory footpath”, or was it simply a lovers graffiti. BTW no fire water Main or valves in the vicinity.

By: Clive Rodgers

Clive Rodgers — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 20:59:13 +0000

So, do I understand from the articles above, that FP plates occur where firemen have plugged a pipe. And by extension, that they only occur outside houses where a fire broke out necessitating firemen to access the water to put it out?

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By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 02 Aug 2017 07:14:34 +0000

Fire insurance marks were something different – they had the insurer’s logo and, usually, a policy number on them. The first fire brigades were run by insurance companies and would indeed only fight the fire if the property carried the company’s mark. You’re unlikely to see an insurance mark on a property anymore as the few surviving ones are worth a pretty penny (though replicas are available – we have around a dozen or so). There’s some good info about fire marks here: http://www.historyhouse.co.uk/articles/fire_marks.html