#tidewayclay

[alison-cooke]

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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Stone sieved from Thames clay. Fired at 1020°C. 

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Delivery of first pallet of Thames clay for Doulton/Bazalgette Project. Processed by Potclays, dug from London's future supersewer by Tideway, delivered to me on Joseph Bazalgette's birthday.

[the-acwu]

Pipeline by Alison Cooke, is the first part of a site-responsive project that pays tribute to the work of pioneering Victorians ceramicist Henry Doulton and engineer Joseph Bazalgette, in constructing London's life-saving sewer system, a network that connected all its citizens.

The project uses clay excavated from London’s future sewer, currently under construction, to make a series of pipes that refer to the extruding process, salt glazing techniques and temperature firing experiments that made Doulton's non-porus ceramic pipes key to the safe transportation of London's sewage.

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Before

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Test pipes. 

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Five tonnes of clay spoil from 25m below the Thames foreshore, about to be processed at Potclays.

Thanks Tideway!!!