#supersewer

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STINK-pipe test pieces for Doulton/Bazalgette project using clay from London’s future supersewer. 

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Fired and Un-fired. Components for Doulton/Bazalgette. Made of clay excavated from the future supersewer.

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Doulton/Bazalgette project

Pipeline - Clay excavated from the future sewer, 25m below Thames foreshore. Hand processed and fired from 801 - 1250°C. Grid ref : TQ29230 77594

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Twelve days of seiving clay.

 Excavated from 25m below the Thames foreshore by Tideway. 

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Sewer plans held at ICE. 

Boreholes were dug all over London in preparation for the building of the Victorian sewer. Borehole No.26 on the mid-level sewer was close to Bazalgettes office in Soho Sqaure and shows the layer of strata beneath the building where the sewer was designed. 

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Salt glazing earthenware clay which was excavated from the future supersewer. First test firing to 1060°C. 1 kg table salt. 

In reference to Henry Doulton’s 1,000 miles of saltglazed sewer pipes which joined London’s buildings to the main pipeline of Bazalgette’s Victorian sewer.

Supported by the Craft Pottery Charitable Trust.

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London clay extrusions - egg shaped and circular. Part of the Doulton/Bazalgette Project using clay excavated from below the Thames foreshore in the construction of the future supersewer.