Christmas Carols From The London Sewers
A team of Thames Water flushers remind us not to tip fat down the drain using the unusual medium of a Christmas carol.
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“Sewer Man” Begins Blogging
A warm welcome to the world of London blogging for Daniel Brackley, aka The Sewer Man. As a flusher for Thames Water, Daniel knows the feculent subterranean crannies of our city as well as anyone whose surname isn’t Bazalgette, and has acted as Londonist’s guide …
Walk Through A Sewer At The London Wetland Centre
We’re not sure enough people know about the London Wetland Centre. This wildlife haven out in Barnes is both beautiful and educational – a far cry from its former role as a series of reservoirs. And it’s only a short walk south of Hammersmith – …
The Fleet River: Paddling Through London’s Most Famous Sewer
This is the Fleet, the largest of London’s ‘vanished’ rivers. And we’re enjoying a rare opportunity to paddle along its slimy bed thanks to an invitation from the good people at Thames Water.
Thames Water Attacks London’s “Fatbergs”
Here’s your word of the day: fatberg. It refers not (as one may think) to a corpulent German, but to the chunks of fat that collect in the sewer networks after being poured down there by people who should know better. If you’ve seen how …
Parliament: A Sewer Runs Through It
Image / iDeLick With Parliament still subsumed by the slime and sludge of the MP expenses scandal, it seems the right time to dump a whole lot more effluent on our elected representatives. That’s almost what’s going to happen: a new supersewer is being constructed …
Lost Rivers from Above: The Peck
Helping you find the sights, sounds, and occasional smells of our buried waterways. The Peck is just one of many small streams draining the swampy flood plain that is South London, but it’s an important and a fascinating one. Together with its northern branch, known …
Lost Rivers from Above: The Tyburn Part III
Helping you find the sights, sounds, and occasional smells of our buried waterways. Part I brought us from the slopes of Hampstead to the ponds of Regents Park, and Part II led us across Oxford Street, but the Tyburn still has a lot of ground …
Rats Rule Muswell Hill
Rats have taken over Muswell Hill. And we’re not just talking about the clowns from Haringey Council who dumped those confidential documents a few months back. No, these are the genuine deal, the scurrying little beggars themselves, all brown of fur and sharp of claw. …
The Saturday Strangeness
28. Urban Legends Of The Underbelly! Urban legends are often vague, friend-of-a-friend tales (FOAFtales) similar to ‘Chinese whispers’, in that they are distorted, exaggerated and through generations of storytelling, they become myth, embedded in our society. For the last fifty or more years there has …
