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.
Guernseyman Maurice Sangan brought in a small, wooden, tobacco pipe. He recalled: "In Guernsey in June 1946 I discovered a large black sea mine with horns in Grandes Rocques bay, where it had been ...