The Great Stink of London: Sir Joseph Bazalgette and the Cleansing of the Victorian Capital by Stephen Halliday

The Great Stink of London: Sir Joseph Bazalgette and the Cleansing of the Victorian Capital

Stephen Halliday

210 pages first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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In the sweltering summer of 1858 the stink of sewage from the polluted Thames was so offensive that it drove Members of Parliament from the chamber of the House of Commons. Sewage generated by a population of over two million Londoners was pouring...

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