Clerkenwell Green’s subterranean Victorian toilets are being demolished

Six years after they were blocked off with hoardings, a block of Victorian toilets in Clerkenwell Green is now a large hole in the ground.The subterranean toilets were installed by the sanitary engineer George Jennings around 1900 to replace a freestanding urinal in the middle of the road.
Sadly, opening the new convenience was associated with a tragedy as the attendant who looked after the previous urinal, Denis Sheehan, was assaulted just a few weeks before the new convenience opened, and seem