Incidentally, I just found a picture of the River Tyburn flowing through the
basement of Gray's Antiques :
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ivertyburn.JPG

In message , Basil Jet
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Incidentally, I just found a picture of the River Tyburn flowing through the
basement of Gray's Antiques :
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ivertyburn.JPG

Although it's widely described as the Tyburn, this is actually a little
tributary stream that rises from a nearby spring (hence its cleanliness)
and is the brook that gave its name to Brook Street. It must join the
actual course of the Tyburn close by, but the latter is really a sewer
that wouldn't support goldfish and that you wouldn't running through
your basement:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/133/3...8e6d8c14_o.jpg

Incidentally, just the other side of Oxford Street (beneath Stratford
Place) lies London's oldest reservoir - a stone water store, built in
1216, from which the waters of the Tyburn supplied the Great Conduit
which ran through to Cheapside, to supply fresh water to the city. Like
the Roman Bath in North Audley Street (also fed by the Tyburn), it is
part of London that has disappeared into the foundations and sewers of
the modern city.

--
Paul Terry

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Incidentally, I just found a picture of the River Tyburn flowing through
the basement of Gray's Antiques :
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ivertyburn.JPG


The Tyburn flows in a huge pipe over the platforms at Sloane Square
underground station. OMG, we're on-topic!

--
DAS

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"Basil Jet" wrote in message
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Incidentally, I just found a picture of the River Tyburn flowing through
the basement of Gray's Antiques :
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ivertyburn.JPG


The Tyburn flows in a huge pipe over the platforms at Sloane Square
underground station. OMG, we're on-topic!

--
DAS

Correction, the river at Sloane Sq is actually the Westbourne, related to
the Tyburn brook, which is *not* related to the River Tyburn!

--
DAS

In message , David A Stocks
writes

The Tyburn flows in a huge pipe over the platforms at Sloane Square
underground station. OMG, we're on-topic!

Correction, the river at Sloane Sq is actually the Westbourne, related
to the Tyburn brook, which is *not* related to the River Tyburn!

The Tyburn River crosses the Circle Line in a similar pipe at Baker
Street. See the top two pictures at:

http://londonist.com/2008/12/lost_ri...e_tyburn_2.php

I think there may be a similar construction at Victoria, although I
don't know if it's visible from the platform. There's some doubt about
the most southerly part of the course of the Tyburn, but it's thought
that Tachbrook Street in Pimlico commemorates the route of one of the
branches of the river.
--
Paul Terry

Paul Terry wrote:

The Tyburn River crosses the Circle Line in a similar pipe at Baker
Street. See the top two pictures at:

http://londonist.com/2008/12/lost_ri...e_tyburn_2.php

Surely that's the footbridge that you (used to able to) use to get in and
out of the station without a ticket?