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Joseph Bazalgette, sewer mastermind and friend to the Worms
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Leicester Square of old: Wyld's Great Globe, see the world for 1'6"
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The Grand Portico of Euston Station, broken up in 1960s, dumped in Lea
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"Toshers in the sewers, Grubbers in drains, Mudlarks down the Thames
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Making the Metropolitan: Euston Rd cut & covered. What of its denizens
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Brunel's Tunnel under Thames. Berwick's dad's ruination, & Nellie's
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How clean Thames, save London? Intercept filth, divert filth east.
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Building the sewers. "Do you require a canary?” asks Bazalgette.
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Met philanthropist: "I anticipate mania. Buy property in the suburbs."
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Fowkes Greenhouse: the Not So Great Exhibition 1862, Albert dead
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It’s boom time till the wheels fall off the bandwagon & we all go bust
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Folks buried alive; trapped in tunnels; rivers of fire under the earth
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"Echoing roar, vast underground cavern...What godless place was this?"
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“Envisage a city as a body, pumping with fluids, blood, bowels ..."
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The Herald: a first-rate piece of Victorian crime fiction.
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Origin of Species de rigueur on coffee tables but noone had read it.
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Shift your crabshells, you doxy old fishbag. Ever affectionate, Worm
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Jenny Marx: If only Karl would write a bestseller, like Mr Dickens.
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