May 31st 05, 09:59 AM
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CTRL St Pancras - Exhumed Bodies
Dave Arquati wrote:
Brimstone wrote:
R.C. Payne wrote:
Troy Steadman wrote:
"Peter Lawrence" wrote in message
From Sunday Times article on the CTRL at St Pancras: ' Just as the
Midland had ploughed up corpses to build its tracks, so the new
work unearthed further remains. In fact, no fewer than 7,000
bodies came out of the ground just north of the station.'
Were there really so many bodies found? When I asked a CTRL
lecturer last year whether any bodies had been unearthed the
answer was ' yes,
a few'. I wonder which report is accurate.
"The graveyard posed the initial problems, the main line was to
pass over
on a girder bridge and the branch to the Metropolitan under in a
tunnel. The disturbance of the remains was expected but was,
initially, carelessly handled. The tunnelling was especially
delayed by the presence of decomposing matter, the many coffins
encountered, and a London-wide outbreak of cholera leading to the
requirement to enclose the Fleet River entirely in iron. Despite
this the connection was completed in January 1867".
http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclop...ailway-station
I'd believe 7,000.
For the Midland, yes, but was the OP not asking about the CTRL?
Can you remind us where the north London terminus of the CTRL is?
The OP was talking about more bodies being exhumed during the CTRL
works recently, in addition to those originally exhumed for the
construction of the Midland.
Quite.
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