No date but we have a tractor backacter which possible predates JCB. If this is a water main it is either Cast iron, spun Iron or Pitch Fibre. Low land possibly near Swarkeston. This may be a sewer because the trench is very deep - watermains are normally laid to 3 feet (0.9 metres) cover.
Photo sent in by Malc Woodward whose father Cecil Woodward worked for SDWB and then STWA.
Photo sent in by Malc Woodward whose father Cecil Woodward worked for SDWB and then STWA.