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    Summary of Liza Picard's Victorian London
    Summary of Liza Picard's Victorian London
    Summary of Liza Picard's Victorian London
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    Summary of Liza Picard's Victorian London

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    #1 The Thames stank. The main ingredient was human waste. In previous centuries, the Thames run sweetly, and salmon and swans thrived in it. But by 1841, the census counted 1,945,000 people in London, and probably more if you include the shadowy ones who always evade officialdom.

    #2 The bouquet of London’s streets was made up of animal dung, human excrement, and decaying brickwork. The sewers were old, and could not be enlarged to cope with the increased flow.

    #3 The Victorians were proud that they had made a breakthrough in cleaning up London, when water closets became a normal part of a house in 1857. But the Great Stink of 1858 proved that their efforts were futile.

    #4 Thinking Londoners began to realize that government through medieval parochial boards was not viable in the nineteenth century, and in 1845 London’s first Metropolitan Board of Works was set up.

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    PublisherIRB Media
    Release dateMay 16, 2022
    ISBN9798822516380
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      Contents

      Insights from Chapter 1

      Insights from Chapter 2

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      Insights from Chapter 5

      Insights from Chapter 6

      Insights from Chapter 7

      Insights from Chapter 8

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      Insights from Chapter 10

      Insights from Chapter 11

      Insights from Chapter 12

      Insights from Chapter 13

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      Insights from Chapter 18

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      Insights from Chapter 23

      Insights from Chapter 1

      #1

      The Thames stank. The main ingredient was human waste. In previous centuries, the Thames run sweetly, and salmon and swans thrived in it. But by 1841, the census counted 1,945,000 people in London, and probably more if you include the shadowy ones who always evade officialdom.

      #2

      The bouquet of London’s streets was made up of animal dung, human excrement, and decaying brickwork. The sewers were old, and could not be enlarged to cope with the increased flow.

      #3

      The Victorians were proud that they had made a breakthrough in cleaning up London, when water closets became a normal part of a house in 1857. But the Great Stink of 1858 proved that their efforts were futile.

      #4

      Thinking Londoners began to realize that government through medieval parochial boards was not viable in the nineteenth century, and in 1845 London’s first Metropolitan Board of Works was set up.

      #5

      The north mid level sewer was built by the Metropolitan Board of Works in 1861. It was 30 feet below the road surface, and the 1,000 laborers who worked on it were the only labor-saving devices used. The pumping stations at Abbey Mills and Crossness were built to drain the north side of the Thames.

      #6

      The opening of the Crossness sewage works was a unique opportunity for the public to see how the city’s sewage was handled. The Illustrated London News’ account of the event combined sycophancy, pride in Bazalgette’s achievement, and realism.

      Insights from Chapter 2

      #1

      The Thames was a wide, meandering river that had been the thoroughfare and playground of Londoners since time immemorial, but it was now soiled and darkened with livid, false tints. The Thames was tidal up to Teddington, and it ebbed and flowed twice a day.

      #2

      The ancient custom of swan-upping was still performed every August, when the swan masters of the Crown and the two privileged livery companies, the Dyers and the Vintners, counted all the swans on the river and marked the young ones.

      #3

      The Thames had been under the jurisdiction of the City of London since 1197. In 1857, the first Thames Conservancy Act was passed, transferring jurisdiction over the river from the City to a statutory body called the Board of Conservancy.

      #4

      Steamboats had a nasty habit of pulling away from the embarkation pier at full speed before the passengers were safely ashore or on board. The busiest stretch of the steamers’ route was between Chelsea and Woolwich, collecting middle-class commuters from Chelsea and artisans from Woolwich and depositing them at London Bridge pier, all for one penny.

      #5

      The tea clipper Cutty Sark can still be viewed in Greenwich, splendidly conserved. The tea race between Britain and China began in 1859, and by

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