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The Great Stink of London: Sir Joseph Bazalgette and the Cleansing of the Victorian Capital. - Review - book review
Contemporary Review, August, 2000
Stephen Halliday. Sutton Publishing. [pound]19.99/US$36.95. 210 pages. ISBN 0-7509-1975-2. Books about sewers and road building may not be to everyone's taste but civilisation as we know it depends on clean water, functioning toilets and good roads. This is not so much a biography of the engineer, Joseph Bazalgette (about whom relatively little is known) but of his employer, the Metropolitan Board of Works which preceded the London County Council.
The MBW and its chief engineer, Joseph Bazalgette, transformed London by building sewers, cleaning the rivers, building modern thoroughfares and creating the Victoria, Albert and Chelsea embankments (to provide underground space for sewers and underground railways). The battles the MBW and Bazalgette had to fight and the competing theories as to public health make fascinating reading. It is about time that credit has been paid to those who did so much to create modern Londo n.
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