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Author: Stephen Halliday
Format: MP3 CD
Author Stephen Halliday
Narrator Derek Scott
Duration 8h 55m
In the sweltering summer of 1858 the stink of sewage from the polluted Thames was so offensive that it drove Members of Parliament from the chamber of the House of Commons. Sewage generated by a population of over two million Londoners was pouring into the river and was being carried to and fro by the tides. The Times called the crisis 'The Great S...
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