Sewers Collection

London / Embankment / 1867
A section of the Thames Embankment, showing the Subway, the Pneumatic Railway, the Metropolitan and District Railway and the Low-Level Sewer

Drainage Grid
A Needham Stockport drainage grid. 19th century

London Rat Catcher
A rat-catcher at work in the London sewers

Spanish Catch Sewers Events Spain Civil War December
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Comic postcard, Sewage worker and boss in the street Date: 20th century

Section of the Holborn Viaduct, showing the subways, taken by permission from Mr. Haywoods report. Date: 19th Century

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

Construction of the Southern High Level Sewer, London 1861
Construction of the invert for the Southern High Level Sewer, London. Date: 1861

Penstock Chamber at Old Ford, London 1861
Interior of the Penstock Chamber in the sewers at Old Ford, London, 1861. Penstock chambers usually have large, moveable watertight doors and are used to control the flow of material in drains

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

The War of the Worlds - Comtemplating life in the sewers
" We will have to lead a life underground, do you understand? I thought about the sewers..." Date: First published: 1898

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

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

Thames Embankment Section
Illustration from 1867 showing a cross-section of the Thames Embankment, at that time in construction and completed in 1870

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

Penstock Chamber in Londons Sewers, 1879
Engraving showing the large metal door of a Penstock Chamber, somewhere in the sewers underneath London, 1879

Gennvilliers Sewageworks
View of irrigated market gardens at the Plaine de Gennevilliers near Paris

Ratcatcher in Sewer 1870
A ratcatcher at work in the sewers of London

Paris Sewer Visit
Visiting the sewers of Paris - the ladies are conducted by a special boat

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