This rather beautiful 'hopper', as these guttering-bowls are properly called, is to be found in the courtyard leading to the Morris Hall in Shrewsbury.
The man who paid for the building of The Morris Hall in the 1930s was James Kent Morris II, who had a passion for loggerheads...
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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 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?
