The Singing Earth
Round here sometimes, you can hear noises underground. There's a pipe buried. Hidden away where you don't know about it.
That pipe is full of clay, and that clay is travelling inside. It's on its way to Swanscombe, Kent, to be made into cement. Thurrock chalk and clay is part of so many buildings. That might be the start of your new house, down there!
This pipe runs from great slurry vats in Stifford. There's a massive great digger goes about there. It's a huge quarry. All still there, all working. Been there for donkey's years, that has, and still going.
And the clay travels in its pipe, under the Mardkye river here, and away to Kent.
Sometimes you can see it. The best place to look for it, is the old farm. There's only one bit of the farm left. There was a massive great barn there years ago, what we call a double arch barn - a really old-fashioned one - but it's gone now. The pipe used to go through a driveway at the back.
If you stand at the right place, round here somewhere, it gets really close to the surface. You can feel the ground humming with the movement of the clay travelling under your feet as you walk.
From stories told in Bulphan Parish Room, Orsett Churches Centre, and writing by students of William Edwards School
Related Stories: 7, 14, 21, 29, 39, 69, 82, 76, 77,
That pipe is full of clay, and that clay is travelling inside. It's on its way to Swanscombe, Kent, to be made into cement. Thurrock chalk and clay is part of so many buildings. That might be the start of your new house, down there!
This pipe runs from great slurry vats in Stifford. There's a massive great digger goes about there. It's a huge quarry. All still there, all working. Been there for donkey's years, that has, and still going.
And the clay travels in its pipe, under the Mardkye river here, and away to Kent.
Sometimes you can see it. The best place to look for it, is the old farm. There's only one bit of the farm left. There was a massive great barn there years ago, what we call a double arch barn - a really old-fashioned one - but it's gone now. The pipe used to go through a driveway at the back.
If you stand at the right place, round here somewhere, it gets really close to the surface. You can feel the ground humming with the movement of the clay travelling under your feet as you walk.
From stories told in Bulphan Parish Room, Orsett Churches Centre, and writing by students of William Edwards School
Related Stories: 7, 14, 21, 29, 39, 69, 82, 76, 77,
