Joseph Bazalgette

Can you imagine the terrible stink in the days when the River Thames was practically an open sewer?

When the smell hit the Houses of Parliament, the government realised they had to do something about it. Joseph Bazalgette, a Victorian engineer and friend of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, had the task of finding a solution to combat London’s ‘great stink’ of 1858. Come along and find out how bad a stinker of situation it was and what Bazalgette did about it.