This is a Victorian poop pipe!

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[duncanbryson]

Former architectural technician here. Houses have these: the vent pipe coming up above the roof surface from the toilet. Sewers would get gas pressure build up which could lift manhole covers or cause the foul gases to bubble up through wc, sink, wash hand basin etc traps.

[Herringirlgull]

Lived in London for 20 years. Never knew what those pipes were.

[bawkslawd]

I love how they're painted go away green too so you really don't think about the stinky

[janab]

We have one outside our house. From 1908.

[kkrampus]

Vent pipes aren't uncommon now either, just better hidden. Or out in the middle of nowhere where they are basically as the Victorian ones but they have nowhere to hide them

[Hellfire..]

The fact that this infrastructure was extended to all the british colonial outposts and major trading cities in asia and africa.

The vent pipe is common in many former british colonies.

[AM]

And also no one shits in the Thames anymore lol

[ACodAmongstMen]

Seattle just had wooden tubes to go off a cliff into the ocean, but they didn't take into account the tide so basically twice a day the toilets would erupt, and since the sewage pipes were made of wood, they did not hold water for very long, so there's crap underneath the city.

[GeorgeLarryMIBU]

Oh my goodness, "The Great Stink"

[davidchase]

You could do methane recapture and use the waste as energy...but then that would make things more symbiotic vs parasitic.

[martinlancaster]

Not entirely true
The houses of Parliament had recently been updated at huge cost.
The Thames had been bad for a number of years but during that summer of 1858, the summer heat was particularly hot and evaporated Alot of the water in the Thames.
This, ended up exposing all the effluent/chemicals/waste at the bottom of the thames.
Parliament, not wanted to leave their swanky new place, tried everything.
They put up boards, sealed windows, moved to Oxford but that wasn't convenient, plus they spent Alot of money on parliament.
So they had to do something.
They created a massive sewer system.

The smell was so bad, there are stories of full grown men being knocked out by the smell.

London - still a shii hole

[Samouraii]

These days London exports the stink to Slough

[pumpthewater]

All that methane gas really warmed up the planet

[FlukiBookie]

The great stink actually was when we built the sewers those pipe where built after because the sewers exploded because of the methane

[amelialikesfrogs]

your animation reminds me of terry gilliam of the pythons

[NeillWeston-zz]

Parliament Didn't move to Oxford but it was considered.. it did lead to Bazalgette building a sewage system..

[lancehernancornel........]

My house also has a stink pipe which was built in 2009 albeit its a pvc and not a metal pipe

[old.not.too.grumpy.]

Just read that pollution in UK rivers os at a 10 year high

[BlueShortsHistory-hi]

gees super informative...! hope mine is just as packed with fun info like this channel🤔

[picohfx]

For the record, 'Victorian poop pipe' is not currently a definition with Urban Dictionary. We should probably fix that