Close encounters of the turd kind
Posted by Jondoe on October 19, 2009 · 19 Comments
For a period of four years, since our first ventures into the Fleet Sewer, all exploration outings on the part of ourselves and others had been concentrated on its downstream stretch; being the approx 2km run from the area close to the northern end of Farringdon Road down to the Thames in the vicinity of [...]
Category: Fleet Sewer, In-the-field · Tags: Battlebridge, Fleet Sewer, King's Cross, River Fleet, Sewer, St. Pancras
Lost Bagnigge
Posted by Jondoe on October 19, 2009 · 23 Comments
With a map of central London fixed over a dartboard, if you were to launch a handful of darts at the board, for as long as you were hitting the board you’d be hitting a spot with multifarious history; every geographic puncture marking a location where the social strata is as varied and transformed as [...]
Category: Featured, Fleet Sewer, Histories · Tags: Bagnigge House, Bagnigge Wells, Fleet Sewer, River Fleet, Spa, St. Pancras, Tea Gardens