Sewer impresario - Joseph Bazalgette

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#bazalgette #london #sewers #Londonsewers #plaque #sewerage #seweragesystem #nikonz8

#snap_community_member #snap_challenge #snap_artgallary #snap_edit #snap_kingdom #snap_community #snap_colour #snap_raw #snap_uk #snap_vip_member #snap_plaque #snap_london #snap_street #snap_outdoors

162 years and still functioning.

#engineering #heritage #Bazalgette

𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔 𝗣𝗜𝗖𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗔𝗬

✧ Joseph Bazalgette ✧

Joseph Bazalgette (28 March 1819 – 15 March 1891) was an English civil engineer. As Chief Engineer of London's Metropolitan Board of Works, his major achievement was the creation of a sewerage system for central London, in response to the Great Stink of 1858, which was instrumental in relieving the city of cholera epidemics, while beginnin...

#HammersmithBridge #London #Bazalgette #Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Bazalgette

And here is the 22° halo (I think) with some #Greenway views - #Bazalgette's pumping station at Abbey Mills, the #RiverLea and as the music soared, the halo gently faded, passing #ABBAVoyage

2/2 - first here: https://mastodonapp.uk/@passedwonder/112271553399837533

#LoveLondonWalkLondon #LookUp #sky #clouds #photography #London #Abba

At night along the Sewerbank you can see forever… but beware what peers back through the gloom – when you stand above the houses, feet resting on #Bazalgette's gurgling poo-pipes.

HTs #NightPhotography #psychogeography #hookland #walking #London #photography #Footpath #JosephBazalgette