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The colourful history behind London’s stink pipes specifically has been vastly documented over on Instagram by the @stink_pipes_of_london account, which has acquired 3,758 dedicated followers.
The Great Stink. This was back when the Big Smoke (or should we say the Big Stink) had no centralised sewage system, meaning the River Thames was full of human excrement.
Consumed by coal London had long struggled with its air quality, from the “Great Stink” that wafted off the Thames’ sewage-polluted waters in the 1850s to the city’s epic “pea soupers ...
Many think of the Victorian era as a time of tight-laced corsets and formal teas. And it was—but it was also the time of the Great Stink, a two-month stretch of 1858 in which London's primary ...
He compared the current situation to the Great Stink, and while thankfully this was hyperbole, the Victorian era’s depictions of Dirty Old Father Thames living in a swamp of filth may not be ...
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That summer became known as the Great Stink. Many people hung sheets soaked in lime in their windows to mask the smell wafting off the river.