And it was—but it was also the time of the Great Stink, a two-month stretch of 1858 in which London's primary water source, the River Thames, was so full of untreated sewage baking in the sun ...

Sewage flowed into London’s rivers for almost 10,000 hours last year, the Evening Standard can reveal. Startling figures show that waste was dumped into the capital’s waterways for more than ...

As a result of the Great Stink, the government invested in the construction of a new sewerage system for London. This was designed by Joseph Bazalgette. The new system was designed in 1858 and ...

Although it was the largest city in the world at the time, Victorian London still had a medieval sanitation system. Xand van Tulleken explores the onset of the Great Stink of 1858. In the process ...

London newspapers reported the smell on their front pages Friday afternoon, with one paper branding it "Le Stink." The farmers' union used the odor to make its case against a similar winter ban ...

Bexley is home to a stunning monument that was nicknamed a cathedral – but was used for something entirely different.

It was called The Great Stink. We're recreating the River Thames in Victorian London. This represents the poo produced by two and a half million Londoners. Look! That's splatted on my trousers!

A London council has been hit with backlash from residents after announcing plans to axe its weekly bin collection and switch to a fortnightly pick-up.Waltham Forest council said that, from March ...

Dr Xand van Tulleken tells how an extraordinary heatwave struck London in the summer in 1858 and a terrible stench began to rise from the River Thames.

A London council has been hit with backlash from residents after announcing plans to axe its weekly bin collection and switch to a fortnightly pick-up.Waltham Forest council said that, from March, ...