Meeting long-lost sewers and their burial places

18 11 2016

When you’re a sewer (or ‘sewist’ as some would like to call us), you have an affinity with others who sew, especially those who have passed. In my recent US travels I came across the burial places of many sewers 😉 You only have to look down to find them — they are scattered and memorialised in the streets of cities like New York and Boston! Here are some I found, and some other pieces of beauty seen when looking down…

In memory of B5, a Boston sewer of great repute

In memory of B5, a Boston sewer of great repute

Drain, a cousin of a sewer

Drain, a cousin of a sewer

No-one is buried here, but there's beauty in the things you walk on

No-one is buried here, but there’s beauty in the things you walk on

Not a sewer, but it should be -- that's a quilting pattern!

Not a sewer, but it should be — that’s a quilting pattern!

The tomb of the unknown sewer

The tomb of the unknown sewer

Ah! Our friend, the sanitary sewer!

Ah! Our friend, the sanitary sewer!

Look carefully -- this was our XXX-rated sewer

Look carefully — this was our XXX-rated sewer

Not a sewer, but a beautiful art deco way to surround a street tree in NYC

Not a sewer, but a beautiful art deco way to surround a street tree in NYC

NYC is full of people from all over the world -- our Indian sewer is buried here

NYC is full of people from all over the world — our Indian sewer is buried here

Tampa/St Petersburg, March 2017

Some more!!

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18 11 2016
Mary Ed Williams

Too, too funny…

18 11 2016
Christine

Thank you Rhonda, I love your sense of humour. I look for long lost sewers everywhere now.

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