beneath your feet

Jun 23, 2010 17:06


I've been getting quite interested in sewers and tunnels this year. First there was the visit in March to the Thames Tunnels (which I wrote about here). A week later I went on a guided walk as part of Obscura Day 2010, following the route of the Fleet River from Kentish Town all the way down to Blackfriars, which I didn't write about, although ( Read more... )

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mondoagogo June 23 2010, 17:26:07 UTC
No worries! I hope it will be good -- he seems to have been doing a lot of research. I also went to the other Obscura Day/Strange Attractor walk that day, which was given by the chap who wrote that book on Medical Bloomsbury which came out a year or so ago. Also very interesting (but, gah! Over 6hrs of walking that day, with a bad back). Actually, Billy came on the Fleet walk as well.

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kadymae June 23 2010, 17:22:39 UTC
Have you read The Ghost Map? It's kind of related to the topic.

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mondoagogo June 23 2010, 17:28:30 UTC
No, I still haven't read The Invention Of Air, which is also related to the topic but which he wrote first (actually, I still haven't read Johnson's first book, Emergence, even though I got it the year it came out).

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