Considerable interest is being taken in the Hereford City Corporation’s extensive sewerage scheme running from Hunderton to the Outfall Works, which is being carried out by a Bury firm of contractors.
The scheme, which was sanctioned by the Council towards the end of last year, has absorbed over one hundred of the local unemployed, and it is anticipated that more will be taken on in the near future.
At the source of the route taken by the scheme nine inch pipes have been laid, which change to 12-inch under the railway bridge and 15-inch in St. Martin’s Street, concluding with 24-inch to the Outfall Works. At the Victoria Bridge an arm has been carried into the river for storm overflow, but no sewage will ever pass from it.
The length of the scheme is roughly 9,500 feet, and it is estimated that the work will continue over the summer.
It is interesting to note that at a point half-way along St. Martin’s Avenue, about two and a half feet below the surface, in virgin soil, was discovered by Mr. Alfred Watkins, the well-known authority on British trackways, a bed of stones so formed as to suggest that it once constituted the camber of an ancient causeway. This discovery will undoubtedly form another of the interesting relics of the past brought to light by Mr. Watkins.
Source info: MS note by AW “Hfd Times May 5”.
In The Old Straight Track, pages 38–39, Watkins gives three instances of old trackways found during sewerage works. It isn’t clear which of them this cutting refers to.