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Into the Sewers: Exploring London's Historic Bowels
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Into the Sewers: Exploring London's Historic Bowels

Close encounters of the turd kind.

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Apr 17, 2024
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We’re going underground again today, into a tunnel network that Londoners use many times a day, yet never see. At a time when waste water problems are so often in the news, I thought it would be timely to recall some of my own trips into the sewers, alongside their fascinating, faeculent history.

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