What is this double skinned pipe???

[harryface]

So I've recently moved into a 1860's mid terrace in Reading and been doing some home improvements.

I was excavating the back of my garden and found a old rusted disused pipe sticking up out of the mud. So out comes the grinder to get through it.

2 days later I finally get through it and it is a beast.

Any idea what this used to be used for ?

http://i.imgur.com/ivyyW8E.jpg

 

[BigBoy]

Old washing line post maybe?

 

[~Divine~Wind~]

is there any more? and did it connect anything at each end?

 

[ttaskmaster]

My money is on a disused gas line.

 

[~Divine~Wind~]

Or an emergency gas line for underground bunkers intended to escape a nuclear war

 

[Skiddley]

We've had MDPE gas pipes pushed through the original lead piping, but I've never seen metal\metal.

EDIT - sorry missed the sticking up bit! I'd go with the washing line pole!

 

[theone8181]

It's a double insulation poo pipe. Hope you washed your hands op (my money's on washing line, we're there any pegs nearby .

 

[Armageus]

Could be a rotating washing line clothes airer thingy - the inner pipe would rotate inside the outer to allow it to spin

 

[DXP55]

That steel looks way to thick for rotary washing line - could be someone erected something that needed strength and just shoved one tube in another -

OP - have you dug any deeper ?

 

[harryface]

I didn't dig any deeper. It's now been buried and concreted over. I think it was an old gas main. It's not in a viable position to be an old washing line, and the garden also had these two steel reinforced concrete pillars which was designed to be the old washing line.

They made great hard-core though !