Overlooked, produced by design studio Pentagram, wanted to “celebrate the gatekeepers” t

Overlooked, produced by design studio Pentagram, wanted to “celebrate the gatekeepers” to the subterranean world beneath London’s streets – the street or ‘manhole’ cover. The team took rubbings of various forms of this type of street furniture, from coal hole covers, to the cast iron discs covering access points to sewers, conduits and gas mains. The tome “tells the history of London through street covers, outlining the vital roles that each piece of street furniture had in serving Londoners”.

Other rubbings of streets metal covers can also be found here