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Wrong-Direction

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Mar 10, 2013
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Very interesting, incredible feet of engineering by the Victorians!
 




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Jul 14, 2013
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Newhaven
Very interesting, incredible feet of engineering by the Victorians!

I would have though you would have spent enough time around drains during the working week.:D

I have been on the tour many years ago and it's very interesting, imagine being a bricklayer back when the sewers were built.
 








Pickles

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May 5, 2014
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I'd recommend this as well. Did it about 40 years ago with the school.

Loved it but I still remember the pong to this day.

Also remember climbing up a big wooden ladder. Wonder how it's changed from then to now with the health and safety these days.
 


The Spanish

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Aug 12, 2008
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The best one is down at black rock off the under cliff where it starts to get really deep as it heads towards portobello.
 


Wrong-Direction

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Mar 10, 2013
13,395
How much, and where do you book it?

Wifes Birthday coming up and she wants to do something "different"

£12 and I think someone's posted the link
 




Wrong-Direction

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Mar 10, 2013
13,395
I would have though you would have spent enough time around drains during the working week.:D

I have been on the tour many years ago and it's very interesting, imagine being a bricklayer back when the sewers were built.

Yeah me and the old man are so used to the smell it didn't phase us! I think they said there was over 7million bricks in one part, amazing how they built it, 4 bricks thick the walls with a 500 year lifespan!
 




SIMMO SAYS

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Jul 31, 2012
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Ⓩ-Ⓐ-Ⓜ-Ⓞ-Ⓡ-Ⓐ;6414671 said:

My feet did get wet tho:eek:------after forty years of plumbing you do not get used to the smell of :shit:despite what the wrong one says-------bit of a 'Busmans Holiday' for me.
Engineering on a vast scale by hand.
Health n safety has somewhat curtailed the tour---must of been even better ten years ago.
Now back to my wine in the garden:thumbsup:lovely
 




Paul Reids Sock

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Nov 3, 2004
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Paul Reids boot
Nice. Glad to hear that it is good

Was it live at the time? When I went down Wick Lane in London it was at about knee/thigh height

Odd thing about the smel of sewage, I work for Thames Water and have spent loads of time with the blockage crews, engineers, CCTV and also many weeks on Sewage Treatment Works. I wouldn't say that I am used to the smell, but it doesn't bother me and I kind of like it as odd as that sounds
 


dougdeep

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May 9, 2004
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SUNNY SEAFORD
I'd recommend this as well. Did it about 40 years ago with the school.

Loved it but I still remember the pong to this day.

Also remember climbing up a big wooden ladder. Wonder how it's changed from then to now with the health and safety these days.

I did it around then with the Tech College. No yellow jackets or hard hats then.
 


Ludensian Gull

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Apr 18, 2009
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Thorpness Suffolk
My Grandparents lived in one of the cottages at Portobello , grandfather worked for Southern Water in the 70s,he died in 1978 and my grandma stayed in the same house until 2006. Remember going down the old pumping station as a child, still remember the smell as the tankers came and unloaded.
 









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