Unsanitary and deadly: The Great Stink of 1858 may foreshadow our future climate breakdown One of the smelliest summers in history has stark implications for our present climate breakdown, experts say ...

The Great Stink: How the Victorians Transformed London to Solve the Problem of Waste – Historic England London's Great Stink heralds a wonder of the industrial world ...

Ever heard of The Great Stink? T here was a time when London became so smelly that politicians had to intervene – and the solution is still dotted across streets to this day.

Hundreds of homes in London are flushing their toilets directly into rivers, and in some cases have been doing so for years. The problem is well known by councils and Thames Water, and has been ...

The Great Stink and public health reforms; The Great Stink and public health reforms. The summer of 1858 was warm and dry. As a result, the water level of the River Thames dropped.

Victorian sewers were built after the Great Stink of 1858, the stench of human waste from the Thames was so vile that Parliament could not sit. The engineering marvels of the era were built for a ...

From the archives: Cleaning up the Great Stink, 1858. By Tom Lowe 2023-04-28T06:00:00+01:00. No comments. London’s sewer network collapses, creating a public health emergency as a cholera epidemic ...

While on a recent trip to the UK I had to travel over the Hammersmith bridge a couple of times a week. This bridge crossing the Thames in west London was designed by a man named Joseph Bazalgette, and ...