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  • A climbing out of Wick lane sewers,  part of the Northern outfall designed by Joseph Bazalgette after an outbreak of cholera in 1853 and "The Big Stink" of 1858. Sewage from 3.4 million Londoners passes through here every day.
    ThamesWater_QL-15.tif
  • Two workers standing in Wick lane sewers,  part of the Northern outfall designed by Joseph Bazalgette after an outbreak of cholera in 1853 and "The Big Stink" of 1858. Sewage from 3.4 million Londoners passes through here every day.
    ThamesWater_QL-13.tif
  • A man being lowered into Wick lane sewers,  part of the Northern outfall designed by Joseph Bazalgette after an outbreak of cholera in 1853 and "The Big Stink" of 1858. Sewage from 3.4 million Londoners passes through here every day.
    ThamesWater_QL-11.tif
  • Thames Water executives in the Interior of the old Abbey Mills Pumping Station (Station A) examining the  modern vertical motors that replaced the original steam beam engine..Located in Abbey Lane, London E15, the building is a sewerage pumping station, designed by engineer Joseph Bazalgette, Edmund Cooper, and architect Charles Driver, it was built between 1865 and 1868 after an outbreak of cholera in 1853 and "The Big Stink" of 1858. It was designed in a cruciform plan, with an elaborate Byzantine style, described as The Cathedral of Sewage. The pumps raise the sewage in the London sewerage system between the two Low Level Sewers and the Northern Outfall Sewer, which was built in the 1860s to carry the increasing amount of sewage produced in London away from the centre of the city.
    ThamesWater_QL-10.tif
  • A Thames water executive points out the northern outfall sewer that connects Abbey Mills pumping station to Beckton Sewage Treatment Works. The plan was produced by London City Council and shows the main sewers in blue, the intercepting sewers in red and the storm relief sewers in green. The system was designed by engineer Joseph Bazalgette after an outbreak of cholera in 1853 and "The Big Stink" of 1858.
    ThamesWater_QL-09.tif
  • A Thames water executive in Wick lane sewers,  part of the Northern outfall designed by Joseph Bazalgette after an outbreak of cholera in 1853 and "The Big Stink" of 1858. Sewage from 3.4 million Londoners passes through here every day.
    ThamesWater_QL-14.tif
  • A Thames water executive in Wick lane sewers,  part of the Northern outfall designed by Joseph Bazalgette after an outbreak of cholera in 1853 and "The Big Stink" of 1858. Sewage from 3.4 million Londoners passes through here every day.
    ThamesWater_QL-12.tif
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