The London Guidebook by Lucya Szachnowski & Gary O'Connell

Author:Lucya Szachnowski & Gary O'Connell [Szachnowski, Lucya & O'Connell, Gary]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Role Playing Game, Cthulhu
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

The Fleet

This best documented of London’s underground rivers flows front Highgate via Camden Town and the City to the Thames near Blackfriars it once ran through the seediest parts of 18th century London. Dead animals, industrial, and human waste turned it into a foul sewer. In Ben Jonson’s Famous Voyage, two lunatics traveled down it and described it as eclipsing the four rivers of Hades in foulness.

It was covered in 1765 and apocryphal stories of wild pigs living in it persisted into the 1920s. In 1861 its fetid gasses exploded, sweeping away many buildings in a tidal wave of sewage.

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