stink pipes

[Wyn]

I was staring at that particularly splendid example this afternoon on the way to the Lambeth Archives open day, and trying to work out how the culverts flow - is there another one just north of Myatts Fields Park (Flodden Road???).

There's one actually in Myatts Fields Park, just inside the gate nearest to Flodden Road. The next one after that is the one pictured in the OP which is on the corner of De Crespigny Park and Denmark Hill.

 

[Major Tom]

There's one actually in Myatts Fields Park, just inside the gate nearest to Flodden Road. The next one after that is the one pictured in the OP which is on the corner of De Crespigny Park and Denmark Hill.

I reckon these are not connected. The one in Myatts Field must be on the Effra, while the one on Denmark Hill is a stream that eventually joins up with the Peck round Bermondsey way.

 

[lang rabbie]

I reckon these are not connected. The one in Myatts Field must be on the Effra, while the one on Denmark Hill is a stream that eventually joins up with the Peck round Bermondsey way.

The Effra ran along the eastern side of Brixton Road, almost half a mile west of Myatts Fields Park (as distinct from the more modern estates of that name).

Contour map of Victorian London showing areas covered by the principal waterworks

 

[JWH]

Sewage plants gather/collect methane to provide (some of) their own electricity needs, iirc.

 

[Major Tom]

The Effra ran along the eastern side of Brixton Road, almost half a mile west of Myatts Fields Park (as distinct from the more modern estates of that name).

Contour map of Victorian London showing areas covered by the principal waterworks

But the map at this link shows the Effra going through Camberwell and Kennington to meet the Thames at Vauxhall. It certainly looks like it goes through Myatts Field to me.

http://www.vauxhallsociety.org.uk/Effra.jpg

 

[lang rabbie]

But the map at this link shows the Effra going through Camberwell and Kennington to meet the Thames at Vauxhall. It certainly looks like it goes through Myatts Field to me.

http://www.vauxhallsociety.org.uk/Effra.jpg

Shocking decline in the map reading skills of our modern armed forces, Major!

Look at the location shown for Ruskin Park on that map, and tell me if you wish to continue with your claims.

 

[Major Tom]

Shocking decline in the map reading skills of our modern armed forces, Major!

Look at the location shown for Ruskin Park on that map, and tell me if you wish to continue with your claims.

Well....

It looks to me like the Effra flows due north up to where it runs alongside Kennington Park. If that is so then it surely must go fairly close to Myatts Field?

Spacemen don;t need to read maps

 

[lang rabbie]

Spacemen don't need to read maps

All together now:

And I think my spaceship knows which way to go...

 

[charlie mowbray]

Ahh - there is one north of the river.

Wherabouts, I can check it on the way home from work.

Go up St Leonards street from Bromley by Bow station, it's on the corner, more or less, of the last turning on the right before you get to Bromley high street. It's painted blue.

 

[innit]

Which reminds me of the lamps powered by sewer gas. There's still a survivor of these down Carting Lane just off Strand by Coal Hole Bar - it was on when I went by at 4pm yesterday afternoon. It made an appearance in the London Nobody Knows presented by James Mason, which I'd seen a coupla hours earlier at ICA

That is fascinating. Is it still powered by gas? How does it ignite itself?

 

[lang rabbie]

That is fascinating. Is it still powered by gas? How does it ignite itself?

AFAIK the Carting Lane "Patent Sewer Vapours Gas Lantern" continues to burn day and night.