A Trip To Paul's Workshop

It was with some trepidation that I set out for deepest darkest Millwall in search of Paul St George’s workshop. But amazement took the place of fear when I finally found him, sitting inside his Telectroscope! Or was that simply an image of him sitting at the other end of his Tunnel!?

The device itself is a lovely confection of brushed metal, shiny pipes, valves and stops and lenses. The drawings that we’ve seen previously are actually surprisingly accurate. I assumed Paul’s great grandfather had perhaps used a bit of artistic license but it turns out that what he’d imagined in his head is pretty much what Paul has built.

       

As for the Tunnel, everything is on course. Although Paul won’t commit to a precise date, he’s adamant that he will break through to the surface by the end of May.

So stay alert! If you spot any signs in or around the Tower Bridge area of seriously unofficial excavations, be sure to alert me here at the blog.

Comments

[Mhari]

This looks amazing, I'm so disappointed I'm not going to be in either place to see it in person. It's such an interesting project and so well documented here. I hope it all goes to plan!
Also, I hope you don't mind I've just put a post up about it spreading the word.

[Paul Conneally]

Tim and Paul - its so good to see the project nearing this very important 'break through' - today I walked and talked with artist and cultural geographer Maurice Maguire across the site of an old mine now turned into a Discovery Park - we got to talking about the tunnels and iwas encouraged when we touched on thinking about how many miles of coal mining tunnels are actually under the UK - I believe that they would easily strech as far as America - Maurice seems to agree to a degree feeling that would stretch to 'somehwere' .. possibly America - so if we could dig all those miles there is no reason why we couldn't dig all in one line to America - heres a bit of our discussion:

http://www.leics.gov.uk/index/community/museums/snibston.htm

All that's best,

Paul

(Paul Conneally)

[Paul Conneally]

Sorry - this is the discussion link:
http://everymothersson.podomatic.com/entry/2008-05-15T12_22_15-07_00

Paul