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Men wearing heavy oilskin protective clothing would go into the tunnels under the streets of London to unblock the sewers with a combing method. Date: 1881

Comic postcard, Workman nervous about horse Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Sewage worker and boss in the street Date: 20th century

Underground Reservoir at Crossness 1865
Interior of the underground reservoir of the Metropolitan Main Drainage Works at Crossness in 1865, officially opened by the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) in that year

London Metropolitan Main Drainage at Crossness 1865
London Metropolitan Main Drainage: the southern outfall works (machine house) at Crossness (about 3km below Woolwich) - interior view. Date: 1865

Cartoon, Sanitary and insanitary matters
Larger figure representing the industries surrounding the River Thames like the soup boiling factory where bones were used and the knackers yard where injured animals were taken to be slaughtered

Flushing the sewers 1860s
With the population expanding and dumping coursing blockages below the depths of London, men wearing heavy oilskin protective clothing would go into the tunnels to unblock the sewers with a combing

Sewer hunter 1860s
Sewer hunters who made their money by combing through the sewers beneath London streets, sieving through the raw water for a small opportunity of finding something valuable like a ring that somebody

Stench of people been flushed away. Date: 1853

Sewage sluice pipes, the cause if sea pollution on the beach at Minsmere, Suffolk, England. Date: 1950s

Proposed Metropolitan subway under London streets 1853
Proposed Metropolitan subway for sewage, gas and water supply. Date: 1853

Engine House at the Metropolitan Main Drainage Works 1865
Visit of the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) to open the Metropolitan Main Drainage Works at Crossness. Number of visitors in the engine room of the works

London Metropolitan Main Drainage with Prince of Wales
London Metropolitan Main Drainage : the southern outfall works at Crossness - Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII), been shown around. Date: 1865

Construction of sewer at Peckham, south east London
Construction of the high-level southern sewer at Peckham, south east London. Date: 1861

London Trade Card - John Hunt, Nightman and Rubbish Carter
London Trade Card - John Hunt, successor to the late Mr Ino. Brook, Nightman and Rubbish Carter, near the Wagon and Horses in Goswell Street, near Mount Mill. 18th century

London Trade Card - William Woodward, Nightman, Carman and Chimney Sweeper, Rubbish Carted, 1 Marylebone Passage, Wells Street, Oxford Market. 18th century

Rome. Cloaca Maxima
Italy. Rome. Cloaca Maxima

Italy. Rome. Cloaca Maxima, it may have been initially constructed around 600 BC under the orders of the king of Rome, Tarquinius Priscus. First, the river Tiber

Emporium. 575 B. C. Channeling. Catalonia. Spain
Emporium. 575 B.C. Channeling. Catalonia. Spain

Water Treatment Facility, Hongochi, Nagasaki City, Japan. Date: circa 1910s

Boston Harbour
Discovered in 1614 Boston harbour played an important role in American history. By 1660 almost all imports came through this greater boston area

M F E Belgrand
MARIE FRANCOIS EUGENE BELGRAND French hydrographic engineer responsible for installing the sewage system in Paris. Date: 1810 - 1878

Paris, France - General View beneath the streets
Section of the soil under a street in Paris, showing drains, water and gas supplies and caves Date: 1854

Main drainage of the metropolis
Drainage works in London to purify the water: sectional view of the tunnels from Wick Lane, near Old Ford, Bow. Date: 1859

Man at work on a country road
A man at work on a country road, with a section of piping resting on raised bricks

Workmen drilling in Bristol, possibly doing maintenance work on the underground sewerage system. Date: circa 1950s

Sewage Outfall
Raw sewage spewing into the sea and onto the beach at Mounts Bay, Penzance, Cornwall, England. Date: 1980s

Raw Sewage Outfall
Raw sewage outfall at low tide, Chester, Cheshire, England. Date: 1960s

Clearing Bristol Sewers
Three workers use spades and a pneumatic drill to clear/expand the tunnel space in Bristols underground sewerage system. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Construction of the Metropolitan Main Drainage Works, Crossn
Engraving showing the construction of the Metropolitan Main Drainage Works at Crossness, Kent, in 1864. This facility, now better known as Crossness Pumping Station

Cross-Section of the Metropolitan Main Drainage Works at Cro
Engraving showing a cross-section of the machinery at the Metropolitan Main Drainage Works at Crossness, 1864. The machinery shown was used to pump away Londons sewage

Corporation of Manchester Steam Barge, January 1877
Engraving of a Corporation of Manchester steam barge used for the transportation of sewage, from the Illustrated London News, 20th January 1877

Lord Robert Montagu / Vf70
LORD ROBERT MONTAGU Politician and controversialist

How to Drink Sewage
How people drink sewage - it leaves the house, soaks into the soil and enters the well from which people pump their drinking water

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