HOT1 & BOB

Just a few notes on the new artwork.

The fire hydrant otherwise known as the Hot1 is quite familar in my parts, it dates from the 1930's and looks very Art Deco with simple clear lines and minimal fuss, my guess it was made by the Dover Engineering Works, and looks familar in style to their gas cover.

The Bobby Dazzler ie BOB, coal plate*, was made by RH & J Pearson, circa 1870s, RH otherwise then known as Robert Henry Pearson was quite a big retail and wholesale ironmonger in his day, employing over 200 people at the time of him leaving this mortial coil in 1893.
Robert H Pearson was a former churchwarden at St Mary Abbots Church in Kensington, a church where SirIssac Newton used to frequent, although not in the same century!
Mr Pearson also did a lot work for local Charities, but as those comic DJs Smashy and Nicey used to say.. we don't like to talk about that!
I am hoping one day to find more of Pearson's spectacular coal plate designs, and naturally when I do, you'll be the first to know!

*Coal Plate, was the term used in the ironmongery trade for a coal chute cover, or coal hole cover. In America you call them coal lids.