On Thu, 9 Sep 2004, Keith Whaley wrote:
Sylwester Pietrzyk wrote:Billy Abbott wrote on 09.09.04 16:57:
http://www.cowfish.org.uk/paw/mirror.html
Taken this weekend when I accidentally wandered into the Regent Street festival while trying to find some people trying to find a lost river flowing somewhere beneath the streets of London.
Now it's _that_ I find hard to believe!
Considering the labyrinth of modern to ancient passages of all manner built under practically all of London, where would there be ROOM for a river?
Now I'd love to hear more of that! <g>
A friend of mine has a book of walks called "Secret London" (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1566565278) full of walks around bits of London that even Londoners (and trainee Londoners such as myself [6 years and counting]) have never really seen. Included in these are a bunch of "lost" river walks - we wandered the route of the Tyburn from marylebone->vauxhall, where we also found (on the other bank) the outfall gate for the River Effra, which went south from the Thames.
These days it seems that the only people who really care that much about the underground rivers are the tube engineers who keep getting flooded :)
My friend with the book, who is rather fond of organising things, is now trying to find out if we can get a group together to be shown around tunnels under London...we've tried and failed (but will keep trying) to get london underground to show us around the abandoned "Down Street" station, which was used as a bomb shelter for Churchill during the second world war, and there seems to be loads more places we might be able to wander around... (and take pictures of course)
I also found this bit of news off Neil Gaiman's blog (he's an author and comic book writer if you haven't heard of him - writes rather well imo):
http://film.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/Guardian/0,4029,1299449,00.html
When it comes to stuff underground, Paris wins :)
billy (who is claustrophobic and hates caves, but still wants to wander around in underground tunnels. weird)
-- People who believe in eugenics should be executed for the good of mankind Billy Abbott billy at cowfish dot org dot uk
