15 JULY 1955, Page 8

THE LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL has brought out a sumptuous illustrated

booklet to celebrate the centenary of London's main drainage. Although I am happy about all those wonderful sewers, I do not think I shall rush off exulting to the exhibition at County Hall when it opens. But there is an extraordinarily large band of enthusiasts whose hobby is sewers and who would not only spend all their spare time in them if, they could, but bring all their friends as well. It is a quaint pastime. I am reminded that Lord Noel-Buxton (who replies in, our corre- spondence columns to Mr. Evelyn Waugh's playful teasing of last week) has frequently been led underground by his interest in rivers. if I were Lord Noel-Buxton I'd much rather have been in a sewer than within range of Mr. Evelyn Waugh.

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