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Author: Grand Junction Water-Works CompanyPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
The Dolphin: Or, Grand Junction Nuisance, Proving that Seven Thousand Families in Westminster and Its Suburbs are Supplied with Water in a State Offensive to the Sight ... and Destructive to Health. [By John Wright.]
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Author: Grand Junction Water-Works CompanyPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
The Dolphin; Or, Grand Junction Nuisance
Author: John WrightDirty Old London
Author: Lee JacksonPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300210221
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
In Victorian London, filth was everywhere: horse traffic filled the streets with dung, household rubbish went uncollected, cesspools brimmed with "night soil," graveyards teemed with rotting corpses, the air itself was choked with smoke. In this intimately visceral book, Lee Jackson guides us through the underbelly of the Victorian metropolis, introducing us to the men and women who struggled to stem a rising tide of pollution and dirt, and the forces that opposed them. Through thematic chapters, Jackson describes how Victorian reformers met with both triumph and disaster. Full of individual stories and overlooked details—from the dustmen who grew rich from recycling, to the peculiar history of the public toilet—this riveting book gives us a fresh insight into the minutiae of daily life and the wider challenges posed by the unprecedented growth of the Victorian capital.
The Shipley Collection of Scientific Papers
Author: Economic Series
Author: British Museum (Natural History)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Publication
Author: Parched City
Author: Emma M. JonesPublisher: John Hunt Publishing
ISBN: 1780991592
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Safe drinking water is essential to daily life. Meeting that demand with bottled water is a luxury too far, argues Emma Jones. She is not a lone critic of the packaged water industry. However, this author looks to history for solutions to a major sustainability problem: in the design, management and use of the city. With original stories from London's archives, Parched City tracks drinking-water obsessions through a popular architectural history tale. ,
The Great Stink of London
Author: Stephen HallidayPublisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752493787
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
‘An extraordinary history’ PETER ACKROYD, The Times ‘A lively account of (Bazalgette’s) magnificent achievements. . . graphically illustrated’ HERMIONE HOBHOUSE ‘Halliday is good on sanitary engineering and even better on cloaca, crud and putrefaction . . . (he) writes with the relish of one who savours his subject and has deeply researched it. . . splendidly illustrated’ RUTH RENDELL In the sweltering summer of 1858, sewage generated by over two million Londoners was pouring into the Thames, producing a stink so offensive that it drove Members of Parliament from the chamber of the House of Commons. 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 with this enormous task was Sir Joseph Bazalgette, who rose to the challenge and built the system of intercepting sewers, pumping stations and treatment works that serves London to this day. In the process, he cleansed the Thames and helped banish cholera. The Great Stink of London offers a vivid insight into Bazalgette’s achievements and the era in which he worked and lived, including his heroic battles with politicians and bureaucrats that would transform the face and health of the world’s then largest city.
A Guide to the Printed Materials for English Social and Economic History, 1750-1850
Author: Judith Blow WilliamsPublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 678
Book Description
A History of Private Bill Legislation
Author: Frederick CliffordPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134569548
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1322
Book Description
This is Volume II of two of a history of the private bill legislation originally published in 1887. Meant by the author as serving as a Jubilee record of the Queen Victoria’s reign, it covers the topics of highways, the water supply of London from the seventeenth century, local authorities before and after the Conquest, corporation of the City of London, Marine life and fire insurance, the Docks on the Thames, Fees on private bills and preliminary inquiries and public legislation.