Full name: The Great Stink of London: Sir Joseph Bazalgette and the Cleansing of the Victorian Metropolis

Author: Stephen Halliday Year: 1999 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780750925808 0750925809

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 into the river and was being carried to and fro by the tides. The Times called the crisis "The Great Stink". Parliament had to act - drastic measures were required to clean the Thames and to improve London's primitive system of sanitation. The great engineer entrusted by Parliament with this enormous task was Sir Joseph Bazalgette. This book is an account of his life and work. Similar books: Underground to Everywhere by Stephen Halliday Old London Bridge by Patricia Pierce London by Peter Ackroyd London by Roy Porter London in the Nineteenth Century by Jerry White London characters and crooks by Henry Mayhew London Under by Peter Ackroyd Necropolis by Catharine Arnold Victorian London by Liza Picard Georgian London: Into the Streets by Lucy Inglis London by Roger Hudson Queer City by Peter Ackroyd The Blackest Streets by Sarah Wise Restoration London by Liza Picard 1700 by Maureen Waller Dr. Johnson's London by Liza Picard Dead Wake by Erik Larson The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson Six Frigates by Ian W. Toll