Bazalgette Memorial

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Sir Joseph Bazalgette Memorial by George Blackall Simonds, 1890
Victoria Embankment
London, May 2023

“The Sir Joseph Bazalgette Memorial is a memorial to the Victorian engineer Sir Joseph Bazalgette, by George Blackall Simonds. It is located on the Victoria Embankment, a few feet up river from the Hungerford Bridge and Golden Jubilee Bridges, opposite the junction with Northumberland Avenue. Bazalgette was a prolific Victorian engineer, responsible for the Embankment on the north of the Thames, as well as the smaller Albert Embankment to the south. As chief engineer of London's Metropolitan Board of Works his major achievement was the creation (in response to the Great Stink of 1858) of a sewer network for central London which was instrumental in relieving the city from cholera epidemics, while beginning to clean the River Thames.[9] Bazalgette's neo-classical mausoleum is in the churchyard of St. Mary's in Wimbledon.” (Bazalgette Memorial, Wikipedia)