Shrewsbury hopper

 Guttering hopper on OMH

If you just look up, and carefully, you'll see plenty of loggerheads, even in the most unlikely places.
This set is on the hopper of a rain downpipe at the Old Market Hall in Shrewsbury town centre.

The OMH building rests on stilts, so to speak, with an open space beneath it that once served as a public market where the the certain stalls within it kept out of the rain.

The first floor area (which you glimpse here) would have been an civic-administrative space, which is why there are loggerheads all over the OMH.  Nowadays, the first floor at the OMH is a cafe and small independent cinema. 

I guess that the loggerheads device on this hopper is what would you'd call an example of civic pride in action.

Which firm would have erected these?

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