Field Study's Man in E11 reports on an encounter with the night soils of his Utopian park life
Saturday 25 th October 2014 - After a long morning sitting at a table delving into an archive relating to the building of the A12/M11 Link Road I needed to stretch my legs and so I set out on a walk; one which would include some of the locations recorded in the various historical documents I was given by the archivist. There were a lot of documents and I did not have enough time to fully read through all of them. My initial visit was about getting a general idea of what was available rather than making a more detailed exploration of the archived local history. In the three hours I spent at the archive I made a brief note of each document I looked at. One such document was a copy of a report made by the: ‘Remembrancer/Superintendent of Epping Forest’ Ref’ no. PD/MY/SEF55/92/REM/44 Date of Report – 5/10/92 Subject – City of London (Various Powers) Act 1990 – Exchange (of?) Land The report, according to my brief reading and notes, concerns land exchanges made beca...