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The Great Stink of London

Sir Joseph Bazalgette and the Cleansing of the Victorian Metropolis

by Stephen Halliday

1999 210 pages eng

It is a trait of human memory to forget, to take things for granted: especially those things pertaining to the "truth of the pipes", the infrastructure of reality, of the comforts of day-to-day existence. Joseph Bazalgette turned this melancholy aspect of human nature into a virtue of engineering: f…

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