So here we have our next drain of the trip, Humble Howard. Not much to say about this one really, which is surprising given its size. Waders on, onwards to the steaming manhole.
Howard is a mix of brick and concrete sewers, relief’s, overflows and storage tanks of old and new. From what i saw Howard is primarily a storm relief, bone dry for the majority. Although having only visited a small section i could, and probably am wrong. The rest however is steamy freshness that Londoners have come to love, the brick walls covered in the nastiest snot looking substances I’ve ever seen. Actually now i think about it, it reminded me of the goo stuff that always seems to be attached to the meat in a can of spam.
We spent a few hours in the drain taking photos here and then, sadly due to misting problems i only came out with three. Oh well better luck next time.
” I find your simplistic overview of humble howard disgraceful ” Bryan, 2010.
…h-m-m, Humble Howard bears a striking, in-scale-resemblance to…[ahem]…Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canadas’ Rankine Power Plants’ wheel pit…sans the massive, Niagara River water spewing iron-plate pipes, equally mass-thudd-ive riveted-iron girders and the cathedral-expansiveness…Humble Howard can and may ‘stand’ tall in that his ‘family’s’ ‘blood’(brick)-lines are ‘blue’(rusty-red) secure, robust and trusted by their world-spanning, eclectic loyal-’subjects’…carry-on proudly, Sir Howard of the Iron Gate!
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