Tagged: pipe-lane
Library, Bookshop, Coffee
03 Jul 2021
I was headed into town to return RA Gilbert's biography of AE Waite to the library and along the way I noticed that Dreadnought had finished their refurbishment, but wouldn't be open until midday. That left me some time to kill, so I bimbled around the old St Augustine's/Gaunt's area for a while, then headed up Park Street for a coffee and a snack to eat on Brandon Hill before heading home the way I'd came so I could pop in and buy a pamphlet on the Hot Well I'd been interested in for a while.
I had a note in my reminders to look for a "niche in the angle of the corner house of Pipe Lane and Frogmore Street", I think because of a reference in a book I'd been reading. And I have a feeling the book might've been written before this block was redeveloped; I couldn't find any niche. I also can't remember the book it was in, so this little side-trip was something of a wash.
I was desperately looking for anything vaguely like a niche and ended up taking some improbable photos of very dull things. You'll be glad to know I binned the rest.
This is, of course, the route of the Carmelite pipe. I think this is the spot where it uses a siphoning action to run uphill for a bit.