Sewer impresario - Joseph Bazalgette
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A cast iron plaque on the bridge that carries the Greenway over the Lea Navigation at Stratford. A blue ground surrounded by an ochre red border, raised lettering a decorative device picked out in white. Metropolitan Board of Works. Northern outfall sewer. Constructed 1862–63 John Thwaites Esqʳᵉ. Chairman. J. W. Bazalgette. Engineer. Edmund Cooper. Resident Engineer. Charles Anderson. Clerk of Works George Furness. Contractor.
162 years and still functioning.
#engineering #heritage #Bazalgette
A thin trickle of water flows under a gate, by a fence.
A large open area of water, with grassy areas and trees around it. People are sitting on the far side.
A thin alleyway, the paving stones have been covered so that what is left resembles a river, and the stones are wet, reflecting the stretlights above.
A wide street with tall buildings, cars and busses stopped at traffic lights, construction work in progress.
#Fleet, Fleet, the #river beneath your feet. Many trickles across #Hampstead give you no determinate source, but several big lakes. Then underground #Bazalgette sent you - but you carved your route through #London long ago, and the land remembers. (6/35)
#LondonRiversWeek #Photography
Fascinating to learn from Dan Cruickshank on BBC Four that Joseph #Bazalgette, the engineer who transformed London by building the Embankment with its innovative sewer, was the grandson of a migrant. Victorian Britain would have been very different if the UK had rejected him & others #Brunel #Pugin
160th anniversary of the Crossness Pumping Station. Part of Sir Joseph Bazalgette's revolutionary Victorian sewerage system.
#photography #Crossness #Bazalgette #Victorian #architecture
Not the best image but there were people who insisted on getting in the way of the others. Crossness Pumping Station. It became a Grade I listed building in 1970 and will remain on the Heritage at Risk Register until the restoration is completed. #Crossness #London #bazalgette #Architecture
