Havent felt like this for a while.
Across from the platform, on the rear wall of the tube station near my house, there is, for the moment, a huge billboard advertising the fact that Qantas will soon start flying the A380 from Sydney to London. Its a huge aerial photo, take on a sunny day, looking west from about 400m east of the Opera House, takes in Waverton to the Botanic Gardens and you can clearly see all the way up the harbour and Parramatta River, Gladeville Bridge, Iron Cove etc. Rozelle sits just beneath the second left hand engine on the A380. Its a nice image to see at 7am on a cold rainy London morning.
The night before last, Zero and i went down the Devils Gate system, a smaller set of storm relief's in South London. It comprises the Falconbrook, Wandsworth & Battersea and Low Level Sewer No. 1 relief's. Its a messy system, full of bricked up tunnels and diverted branches, very unusual for the normally well organised underside of the city. This is all due to the original pumping station for the system, on Jews Row (terrible irony right there homeboy) being bombed during World War II. With this station gone and quite a few old brick pipes structurally undermined, they joined em all up, and diverted them to the Falconbrook Pumping Station.
This system really is a gem, its full of weird shit, has almost no flow, fresh or otherwise and unlike so many London systems, its barely over 3km in total length, with features nicely packed together.
To get my head around it, i drew a dodgy MS Paint map that roughly corresponds to the below video, which Zero shot while we were there.
With Zero having moved from Youtube to Vimeo, the quality of the vids has improved dramatically as Vimeo dont compress the living shit out of videos the way Youtube does. Its a very well put together piece and thankfully Siologen Jeeves Westminster features only occasionally.
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Lol, this evening, Flame and i proved that you can indeed explore the Tyburn and the Westbourne in a pair of sneakers and a pair of Blundstones without even getting wet feet.
The night before last, Zero and i went down the Devils Gate system, a smaller set of storm relief's in South London. It comprises the Falconbrook, Wandsworth & Battersea and Low Level Sewer No. 1 relief's. Its a messy system, full of bricked up tunnels and diverted branches, very unusual for the normally well organised underside of the city. This is all due to the original pumping station for the system, on Jews Row (terrible irony right there homeboy) being bombed during World War II. With this station gone and quite a few old brick pipes structurally undermined, they joined em all up, and diverted them to the Falconbrook Pumping Station.
This system really is a gem, its full of weird shit, has almost no flow, fresh or otherwise and unlike so many London systems, its barely over 3km in total length, with features nicely packed together.
To get my head around it, i drew a dodgy MS Paint map that roughly corresponds to the below video, which Zero shot while we were there.
With Zero having moved from Youtube to Vimeo, the quality of the vids has improved dramatically as Vimeo dont compress the living shit out of videos the way Youtube does. Its a very well put together piece and thankfully Siologen Jeeves Westminster features only occasionally.
You can watch this video on www.livejournal.com
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Lol, this evening, Flame and i proved that you can indeed explore the Tyburn and the Westbourne in a pair of sneakers and a pair of Blundstones without even getting wet feet.