do you believe in the telectroscope?

Where Paul Is Drilling & When He Will Surface

It's official  - Paul's Telectroscopes will formally open to the public on 22nd May. You can even book an appointment to view rather than queue like the rest of us.

More exciting still, a New York newspaper has let slip that Paul is expected to 'break the surface' in both London and New York some time on Tuesday 20th May. Keep your eyes and ears peeled!

I have been using the somewhat sketchy details that Paul has given me in previous blog entries to add a bit more detail to a map that shows the precise route of the Tunnel.

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There are a few surprises.

Notion Island

Paul St George writes:

Tim, I found the drawing of the island and the start of the tunnels.

The first thing to say is that it is not really called Notion Island. I have agreed with the Council that I will do everything I can to avoid a further run of treasure seekers and prospecters.

The route of the tunnel, the siting of the Telectroscopes

I'm heartened to see that an arts organisation called Artichoke has announced a bit more detail about the Telectroscope and mentions specific sites in New York and London.

Inspired by the drawing that Paul posted of his ancestor's Eureka moment, I have charted the two locations mentioned on a Google map, which then gives us a straight line that *may* be the route of the tunnel (if indeed it is straight). Perhaps you live somewhere along the line? If so, have you heard rumbles or felt vibrations?

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I’m planning to go out and about soon to take some soundings.

More importantly, I have accepted Paul's invitation to visit his workshop!

Walking the line

I appear to have touched a nerve with my old golfing partner Paul Conneally:

Hi Tim, It's really interesting how by chance we both find connection with tunnels. The piece I collaborated with Maurice Maguire on 'Walk the Line' saw us taking residents on a walk following the line of a canal tunnel that passes under the 3 Estates in Kings Norton.

It formed part of Maurice's bigger piece 'Changing Landscapes' where he surveyed the route of the canal and marked it on the surface through the estate with blue markers - many showing the depth below of the actual canal.

Many people on the estate had no idea that the canal ran under them and those that had a notion that it did didn't know it's actual route. There are so many 'tunnels' of all kinds right under our feet and if we consider the drains, and cable conduits the amount is hard to come terms with.

I became fairly obsessed at one time with marks on pavements and roads made by gangs of labourers and egineers to guide workmen in digging to lay digital cables. I was struck by how much of the digital revolution was being built on the traditional skills of men with shovels - just like the canals, roads, and train tracks.

All that's best, Paul