Pot hole

A rather fierce pot hole on the Stamford Green side of West Hill, snapped in the dark, with the telephone making up for the lack of light with a long exposure and low resolution. I don't think that it uses its flash without instruction - which I have not given and would not know how to give.

Nor have I taken a straight edge and tape to it, but the drain cover must be a good four inches below the surrounding surface and could be a bit unpleasant if you hit it on a bicycle, not having noticed or known of it beforehand, which would be easy enough in the dark. At least the slots in the cover are fairly narrow and diagonal, so you would be unlikely to get your front wheel stuck in one, with possibly catastrophic results.

Broken sump underneath?

PS: a week or so later: the other day in the dark, I did not put my front bicycle wheel down a pot hole, but heading east along the bottom of East Street, I did put a front right trolley wheel down one, a gap down the right hand side of something iron let into the pavement. Luckily, I was travelling fairly slowly, and while I stumbled, I did not fall.