This is a section of wooden water pipe that carried water from Clerkenwell round pond to the City of London. The pipes were made from tree trunks, mainly elm, bored through from end to end.

Mueller is a Cultural Resources Specialist with HDR, Inc. She helped identify the object as a log wood pipe the Beaver Brook Water Co. installed in 1886. It was found along West 25th Avenue ...

Steam and hot-water pipes are often suffered to remain in contact with wood-work, and frequently packed with charcoal or sawdust to prevent radiation. The foil owing facts illustrate the danger of ...