A List of the Lost
The Victorian stink pipes of Great Britain are a testament to one of the greatest engineering projects in human history: the London sewer system - a groundbreaking feat of civil engineering that not only transformed the city of London but also set a precedent for modern urban sanitation systems worldwide. It dramatically improved the lives of millions and changed the city forever.
The stink pipes have been lost to history, forgotten, left to rot, destroyed, but many still remain. Some historians have tried to catalogue them, but it is an immense task as they are spread out across the city, and even across the country. Attempts to create a database of these historic structures have made the national news.
But the greatest collection of knowledge of these last remaining memorials to Victorian endeavour exists here, in the wayfarer system!
Instead of using this as a means of protecting these precious reminders of our history, or leveraging this knowledge as a way of generating media attention for their games, Niantic have decided to remove them from the game. And not in some clean, coordinated way, but by allowing users to delete them in a toxic way. Players are destroying the record of our history, not for constructive reasons like improving the quality of the game, but base reasons of spite and vengeance.
This, to me, seems like an act of self harm, and I have made this topic so that we can list the Victorian stink pipes that as they are deleted, so that if Niantic ever come to their senses there will be a record of them all so they can be easily reinstated. If not, at least it might be useful one day for a historian tracking down these curious remnants of our past.
I have lost six in my neighbourhood, I heard from @SleepC that another faction has also lost a similar number, and dozens have gone to the north of me. And this is just the start.
Den Road Stink Pipe
Pickhurst Lane Victorian Stink Pipe
Iden Close Victorian Stink Pipe
St Mary’s Avenue Victorian Stink Pipe
Mays Hill Road Victorian Stink Pipe
Durham Road Victorian Stink Pipe