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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.
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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.
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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.
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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). |
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Housing has done for the gas holders what IRA attempted in 1970s.
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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). |
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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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