It has been quiet today in the Back Street (West St Helen Street), with none of the usual buzz of traffic. A Road Closed sign by the iron bridge has diverted most vehicles elsewhere.
The water leak started on Thursday, worsening through Friday and Saturday. Today, a Thames Water van and a lorry-mounted drill arrived to dig a hole.
I took this picture when work paused temporarily when a tool — possibly an angle grinder — broke and needed replacing. The hole bubbled with water, and there was a stream – a metre wide – running down the road. The team resumed work shortly afterwards. They turned off the water at a stopcock, pumped out the water, and clamped the pipe.
I hate to be picky but, in the UK, meters measure the flow of liquids or gas. Distances are measured in metres (or inches, feet, yards and miles).
I knew I should have stuck to feet and inches. Corrected now 🙂
@mike you are not being picky but you and the rest of the UK should join the modern ages – km and metres