An interesting pipe?

L3 Day 69. The pipe going across the river on the side of the railway bridge (See extra) is in fact a sewage pipe! In 1891 the pipe carried sewage from Hampton Wick to a processing plant in Canbury Gardens, Kingston. The sewage was baked, ground and the resulting fertiliser was put into sacks...some of which went overseas. The smell when the ovens were opened upset the locals and the treatment works closed in 1909. The pipe is still used to take sewage to a treatment works at Hogs Mill on the other side of Kingston...130 years later still being used.
I’m sure very few locals know about this...it is in a recently published book ‘Walking the History of Hampton Wick’ based on a walk created for a local school. The author says this is the most popular part of the walk for the Year 2 pupils....the”Poo Pipe”