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I got a tour of Abbey Mills pumping station as part of Newham Heritage Week. Tickets were a lot easier to get than for Open House, so if anyone’s interested - a visit is well worthwhile - it’s worth keeping an eye on that too.
Thames Water have in the past run a free "Sewer Week" event, which offered a lecture on the history of sewerage in London, a guided tour of Abbey Mills, then suiting up to walk through the Bazalgette sewers for a while (stunning brickwork), finished off with a finger-buffet lunch.

dg nods: Sylvia went.
I know your walk isn't taking you into Waltham Forest, but every street here with a Meridian crossing was marked in 2000, and many of them haven't been resurfaced yet.

dg nods:

Thanks for the link to Abbey Mills. The photos of the inside are stunning. I’ve often been past but never inside.

Speaking of imaginary lines, recently I re-read your fab blog about the river Fleet & wondered if you might post it again (on a day when you’re not going out).
Housing has done for the gas holders what IRA attempted in 1970s.
Lovely to see Abbey Mills again.

Tomorrow you may be walking within yards of our old house (I think I once calculated we were about thirty yards off the meridian).
It's been ages since I travelled on the district line or C2C, but there is a niggling sensation in my memory that the meridian is marked by the side of the tracks.










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