There was a time when London became so smelly that politicians had to intervene – and the solution is still dotted across ...

They were built not only in London but across the UK following the particularly pungent summer of 1858, popularly known as The Great Stink. For years, the River Thames had been used to dump the ...

As a result of the Great Stink, the government invested in the construction of a new sewerage system for London. This was designed by Joseph Bazalgette. The new system was designed in 1858 and ...

Known as ‘stinkpipes’, these vertical iron tunnels were put up around the city in the Victorian era. They were essentially built to make London less stinky, and would funnel noxious gases out of the ...

Although it was the largest city in the world at the time, Victorian London still had a medieval sanitation system. Xand van Tulleken explores the onset of the Great Stink of 1858. In the process ...

The year is 1858, London has a population of around 2 million ... river engulfed the city in an unfavourable era named “The Great Stink”, so much so, that MPs considered fleeing the city!

And in the hot summer of 1858, the smell became unbearable. It was called The Great Stink. We're recreating the River Thames in Victorian London. This represents the poo produced by two and a half ...