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Fall Asleep as a Sewer Flusher Working Beneath Victorian London

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Descend beneath the streets of Victorian London and experience a night in the life of a sewer flusher. Armed with a lantern, rake, shovel, and a strong tolerance for unpleasant smells, you help keep the city’s vast new sewer system flowing.


Walk through damp brick tunnels, clear accumulated silt and debris, release flushing water, navigate sudden storms, and meet the rats that regard London’s underground network as their private estate. Aboveground, politicians and engineers celebrate the triumph of modern sanitation. Belowground, someone still has to remove what millions of Londoners send down the drains.


Get comfortable, close your eyes, and fall asleep while exploring the filthy human labor hidden beneath one of Victorian Britain’s greatest engineering achievements.


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