Showing posts with label bazalgette. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bazalgette. Show all posts

Monday, October 17, 2005

more half-baked guesswork in industrial archaeology ...


cycling every day from putney bridge towards nine elms, i pass a couple of tall "chimneys" springing from the pavement

might they have provided ventilation for bazalgette's famous sewer ?

the pattern around the rim at the top is certainly in the right kind of style for the project

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/bazalgette_joseph.shtml

what do you think ?