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which had been taken out of the excavations there, on the side of 

 the road near the Piccadilly front of the Museum. 



During some months of the present year (1903) excavations 

 have been in progress in the roadway of London Street, 

 Greenwich, for the laying down of electric tram-lines. On 

 August 1 8th my wife informed me that some tree-trunk pipes 

 had been exposed. On visiting the spot I saw some about 

 3 feet beneath the surface. A good specimen of one of the shorter 

 pipes was sent up to my house, through the kind intervention of 

 Mr. G. Jones, 21, London Street. I am also much indebted 

 to Mr. Knock, 54 and 56, London Street, who showed me some 

 good specimens which he had caused to be placed in his garden ; 

 and to Mr. E. J. Pearce, of 92, London Street, who informed 

 me of the discovery of some more wooden pipes a few days later. 

 All were found near the junction of London Street with Royal 

 Hill. Mr. Jones was specially interested in these pipes, because 

 he remembered seeing similar ones in the year 1870 in the 

 neighbourhood of New North Road and in High Holborn, when 

 the New River Company was laying down larger main pipes- 

 there. He also remembers hearing from relatives that a large 

 number of these pipes used to be in the gardens of the Round 

 House, Clerkenwell. The Round House was demolished 

 between 50 and 60 years ago. 



I am much indebted to my friend, Mr. R. O. Heslop, F.S.A. 

 &c., of Newcastle-on-Tyne, for the following interesting details 

 from the History of the Water Supply of Neivcastle-on-Tyne, a 

 pamphlet written in 1851 by D. D. Main, then Secretary of the 

 Newcastle and Gateshead Water Company, and reprinted from 

 the Newcastle Chronicle, 1851. 



After alluding to a scheme devised by Peter Morrys in 1580 

 for supplying the City of London with water, Main remarks that 

 a similar project was suggested for Newcastle in 1697 by 

 William Yarnold, an enterprising attorney from Oxfordshire,. 

 *' who came before the mayor and made a proposal for supplying 

 the town with good and wholesome water." He obtained an 

 Act of Parliament (1698-9) and power " to break up the 

 pavement of the streets, and to lay down pipes of lead or timber 

 for the supply of the inhabitants." Yarnold constructed a small 

 reservoir at Coxlodge, and laid down a four-inch wooden pipe 

 from Coxlodge across the Moor, through the town of Newcastle^ 



