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Thank you for this - and also for teaching me the word “Gabion”!
Liz | 14.10.17 - 7:31 a.m. | #
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I was racking my brain thinking of what could be so exciting on Bullsmoor Lane to deserve a post all its own. Of course I didn't consider the civil engineering feat just behind that I watched being dug up in my early days at secondary school, got chased out of the then trench by a security guard when myself and some friends thought it would be a great idea to play football there one Sunday afternoon and stayed at the school opposite just long enough to see transform into the tunnel we have today. Like many I have passed through hundreds of times but would be one of the few to know what lies above and certainly one of a select number to have had a kick about on what is now the M25!
Phil | 14.10.17 - 7:42 a.m. | #
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Very interesting read !
Kevin | 14.10.17 - 8:08 a.m. | #
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I am of the sad type that does wonder what is above tunnels when you go through them - including those on the M25. You've made my day, Thank you.
Engineering is cool | 14.10.17 - 8:14 a.m. | #
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Oddly, I had always wondered why there was a tunnel there as there was nothing on the top. Now I know. Thanks.
b | 14.10.17 - 10:34 a.m. | #
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Ah, this is one I did know.
Just the other day as I drove through the tunnel with my daughter I amazed her with my knowledge of the cricket field above us.
She woke up when we got home.
Chris | 14.10.17 - 10:53 a.m. | #
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Excellent post. Thanks.
Cornish Cockney | 14.10.17 - 10:55 a.m. | #
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Ggreat, thanks DG
After yesterday's teaser I'd also been scratching my head as to what interested you, and the only thing I could come up with was the McDonalds which has always struck me as an incongruously imposing building. I found this website, and was anticipating a post about mods and rockers.
http://www.closedpubs.co.uk/middlesex/enfield_bulldog.html
Caz | 14.10.17 - 12:42 p.m. | #
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Damn you DG for your tantalising external links. I've just spent an hour finding out how diaphragm walls are constructed. Now I'm wondering where all the bentonite slurry from this project ended up.
drD | Homepage | 14.10.17 - 12:48 p.m. | #
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On the Gabion question, I first came across the work in a Hornblower novel - formal siege with gabion and fascines.
Mike D | 14.10.17 - 4:28 p.m. | #
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And also 'Gabion' by Julia Riding (1979) a YA SF novel where the author just needed a name for a (rocky) country.
Mike D | 14.10.17 - 4:32 p.m. | #
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Re my earlier post - I should have read the whole piece. The cricket pitch is on the Bell Common Tunnel which er, is not the Holmesdale Tunnel.
Sigh.
Chris | 14.10.17 - 6:30 p.m. | #
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This is what should have happened in leytonstone when the M11 link road was built. Instead we have a Berlin Wall between communities.
Mark | 14.10.17 - 7:26 p.m. | #
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The oddest thing you are likely to find under a major roadway is at Welwyn. The Roman Baths are remarkably complete, and have been well presented for the visitor.
Look at the website http://welhat.gov.uk/romanbaths
dg writes: ...or my report here.
Temp | 15.10.17 - 5:29 p.m. | #
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