gas lighting

Right Thomas Heatherwick’s sculpture, known as ‘Angel’s Wings’, in Paternoster Square in London provides ventilation for an underground electricity substation.

Victorian vents and Roman roads

Inventive Vents has a clever way of engaging younger people with scatological anecdotes, in the style of Horrible Histories. Thus we are told that the innocuously named Carting Lane was known colloquially as ‘Farting Lane’ because of the smell of sewer gas.