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On the North Circular Road they built a jetty from all the bomb rubble retrieved from the bombed houses out into the middle of the Welsh Harp reservoir.

The idea was to then put on an 18 to 20 inch water pipe down from the jetty right across to the middle of the North circular Road.

They then T鈥檇 off in the middle of the central reservation of the road and ran these pipes in either direction with a pumping station.

The idea was that if anyone ever had a big fire and didn't have enough water they could actually tap into the water supply on the North circular Road.

It must have stretched for at least a mile in either direction - it was a fabulous bill of engineering to be done so quickly.

Happily it was never used to my knowledge. It stayed for a long while and then they took the piping away but left the jetty, which was quite a nice pier for us Londoners, which we played on for many years afterwards until the Welsh Harp was restored back to its original use for yachts and suchlike.

The only other thing they did was to have alongside the bank of the Welsh Harp two large concrete buttresses one either side of the Welsh Harp.

They used to stretch to steel hawsers across the whole of the width of the Welsh Harp to prevent seaplane landings.

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