#Downpipe
When you design the brickwork to celebrate the downpipe!

Livornostraat 12 1, Amsterdam (photo by John Lee)
January 8, 2026 at 8:56 AM
July 10, 2025 at 1:25 PM
The rusty downpipes of Horncastle, a series.
April 23, 2025 at 2:43 PM
The blue tits are exploring the tiny crevice in the wall by the downpipe where they nested last year and successfully raised 4 chicks. Repeat, the blue tits are exploring the tiny crevice in the wall by the downpipe where they nested last year and successfully raised 4 chicks.
This is not a drill.
February 24, 2025 at 10:54 AM
March 17, 2026 at 5:02 AM
Even this narrow bin-lined alley in Birmingham has a fern growing from a downpipe #WildflowerHour ##UrbanBotany #UrbanPlants
June 15, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Having an extension built. Builder told me not to use the toilet in the next hour because they were disconnecting the downpipe. Said OK, but instantly forgot. Half an hour later I peed on my builders.
May 3, 2026 at 3:20 PM
I won
July 31, 2026 at 7:24 PM
It’s the wrong downpipe Gromit!
September 14, 2026 at 11:01 AM
Ooh new zinc guttering, downpipe & caniveau installed

Sorry I get far more excited than I should about surface water drainage
June 23, 2026 at 11:30 AM
forg
February 11, 2026 at 9:30 PM
A rather unfortunately positioned downpipe on Athole Gardens in the West End of Glasgow.

#glasgow #atholegardens #streetsign #humour
June 16, 2025 at 10:15 PM
This feels like a cheeky rebellion! Moss growing from a leaky downpipe in #Oxford

#NoticingNature #Nature #SciComm
January 23, 2026 at 1:20 PM
Blue Box and Downpipe, Ipswich
#BlueMonday
July 22, 2024 at 4:58 AM
June 2, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Everyday Beauty

#aofoto
September 22, 2026 at 7:02 PM
February 3, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Hey @theguardian.com, I wrote a bestselling book defending pigeons, so reach out at rmosco@gmail.com if you'd like to hear a spirited and science-based defense of those perfect birds 🕊️
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I loathe pigeons. You wouldn’t believe what they do to my downpipe | Adrian Chiles
These noisy, filthy, feral creatures make my life a misery. Is there really no way to get rid of them, asks Adrian Chiles
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April 24, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Alternatively
November 30, 2025 at 4:04 PM
also: one decent night of rain and the water butt is full. Say it with me. EVERY DOWNPIPE NEEDS A WATER BUTT
May 25, 2025 at 7:42 AM
I loathe pigeons. You wouldn’t believe what they do to my downpipe | Adrian Chiles
I loathe pigeons. You wouldn’t believe what they do to my downpipe | Adrian Chiles
These noisy, filthy, feral creatures make my life a misery. Is there really no way to get rid of them, asks Adrian Chiles
www.theguardian.com
April 24, 2025 at 11:29 AM
wow a rare sighting of a Nissan skyline turbo restomodded into a natural gas encabulator with a pressure release valve on the downpipe
November 13, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Not normally into a black house but there's something very pleasing about the yellow pipe here
June 18, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Just a woman, looking at a Spelling Bee, telling it that downpipe absolutely is a bloody word you incomprehensibly niche and capricious game.
September 16, 2026 at 7:17 AM