Joseph Bazalgette
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Sir Joseph William Bazalgette was a British civil engineer. As Chief Engineer of London's Metropolitan Board of Works, his major achievement was the creation of the London Main Drainage, the sewerage system for central London, in response to the Great Stink of 1858, which was instrumental in relieving the city of...
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The London sewer system being built in 1860 led by Bazalgette (top right)
The old Abbey Mills Pumping Station in Mill Meads, East London
Drainage reports by Bazalgette in the Institution of Civil Engineers archives
Bazalgette as the "Sewer Snake", Punch, 1883
Bazalgette Mausoleum, St Mary's Church, Wimbledon
Memorial to Sir Joseph Bazalgette on Victoria Embankment, London WC2
Detail of Hammersmith Bridge, designed by BazalgetteAwards 2
Architects born in the 1810s 6
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Sir Joseph William Bazalgette was a British civil engineer. As Chief Engineer of London's Metropolitan Board of Works, his major achievement was the creation of the London Main Drainage, the sewerage system for central London, in response to the Great Stink of 1858, which was instrumental in relieving the city of cholera epidemics, while beginning to clean the River Thames.
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