Someone seems to have installed an Indiana Jones set piece into the pavement on Clapham High Street this weekend. Sadly no religious artifacts or aliens were spotted, but it did give an intriguing glimpse into Clapham’s past by exposing the old Victorian pipes that are being replaced.

Not exactly the most exciting news about Clapham town in the world, but Love Clapham did find it mildly fascinating to see the rusty, corroded old gas and water pipes buried beneath Clapham High Street’s pavements. To think of the hundreds of thousands of Clapper feet that have walked over the pipes for roughly one hundred years.

Clapham High Street would have been an entirely different, and probably much quieter, place than it is today when those pipes were first put in. Change is for the best however, as those clanky pipes must be horribly inefficient and leaky. Good to see yet more improvements to Clapham going ahead. Soon everything will be all shiny and new.

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