Spring rains that once might have spilled sewage into the River Thames are instead filling up London’s new “super sewer” – a massive network of tunnels designed to bring the city’s plumbing into the ...
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When London stank to high heaven
In 1858, London sweltered through an unbearable heat wave. The River Thames reeked so badly it left people gasping for air.
In just over a year’s time, where I am standing will be pitch black, devoid of human life and – on a bad day – full of human effluent. I am in London’s new super sewer, a monstrous concrete pipe that ...
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The Victorian pumping station that helped save London from disease
Discover how London's Crossness Pumping Station transformed sanitation and became one of Britain's greatest engineering ...
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