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tuesday T
tuesday Aug 8, 2005 13:03:15
Replying to nigelswift

there is a story of a pig falling into the Fleet ditch in the seventeenth century. (The Fleet is one of London's 'lost' rivers). It was found a week or so later --alive - and much heavier .....and correspondingly more valuable.......

well, I guess we can imagine the sort of things it was eating - so there you have it - the Avebury ditch was a big pig trough for fattening up the skinny ones

L Littlestone
Littlestone Aug 8, 2005 21:50:38
Replying to tuesday

Ha! knew it all along ;-)

Interesting story Tuesday. Incidentally, the River Fleet still flows under the British Museum (think it's the Fleet) and can be seen from an area in it's lower basement. Up to the middle of the 1980s parts of the basement used to get flooded whenever there was a heavy downpour in London - don't know if that still happens though (flooding that is not downpours).