A 1937 book called The Night Climbers of Cambridge was full of photographs of agile young men (exclusively) climbing up drainpipes, over fences and balancing atop the spires of the old colleges.
FROM a stage adorned with models of drones and rockets fashioned from plastic drainpipes, on August 30th Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist movement, hailed its resumption of political activity in the West Bank.
Centrifugal casting, however, uses a rotating mold to produce hollow cylindrical castings, such as cast-iron drainpipes.
The houses had drainpipes that carried the water to a street drain in the centre of the street, two to four feet deep and covered with slabs or bricks.
Classroom sink-tops and splashbacks are made from recycled plastic yoghurt pots while desks are made from recycled drainpipes.
Mikko hid all the pipework and cables, so there are no drainpipes cluttering up the back façade, and put in as much glass as possible.
The design I was looking at was an intricate, interconnecting delta of drainpipes, carefully calibrated to take rainwater away from the courtyard and deliver it to the pond on the other side of the drive.
The loos flush using rainwater, roofs are covered with sedum plants, the building is heated using the playground and the desks are made from drainpipes.
Lastly, water damage caused by leaking roofs, clogged drainpipes, and faulty plumbing is easily stopped by repairing these systems.
Across Moscow, locals scuttle from A to B avoiding the huge phallic icicles which jut into the street from the spouts of drainpipes.
The resulting thaw was alarming in its suddenness, drainpipes and gutters dripping, sidewalks puddling, streets flooded, a constant sound of water rushing downhill.
