The Orient Express

By koko

Smoke cure or Champion pot

As seen on the left,, complete with two king pots as already seen.
Some chimney pots have some exotic names- like Weemac and spiral captain, and different manufacturers may call the same design by different names-like smoke cure and champion.
Pots are flaunched in place on the stack. Basically this means the cement or motar slopes inwards towards the top of the pot so rain drips off rather pools around the base. Water entering the cracks in the pot, which naturally occurs over time with the expansion and contraction due to temperature changes, will freeze and expand during winter and eventually shatter the pot.
As a result, chimney pots that became largely redundant due to the installation of gas-fired Central heating, were later thought of as a nuisance to maintain and a potential health and safety hazard and sadly this led to several pots being removed or cut back to stumps.
These smoke cure pots are twice the size of the king pots, but from this angle you can't tell.

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