 | | 23/08/2013 18:12
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The King's Ginger vs the Great Stink
For today's exciting episode of The King's Ginger adventures, I went a little off the beaten track to the bowels of South-East London. Literally - I went to a sewage treatment works. But this wasn't an ordinary ordure pumping facility - oh no. It was opened in April 1865 by our hero, King Edward VII. Well, OK, he was still the Prince of Wales. But how did our beloved monarch in waiting come to be involved with the opening of Crossness Pumping Station ? To find out, we must first hold our noses and delve into The Great Stink.
In the early to mid-Victorian era, cities and towns in England were in a bad way. They were horribly overcrowded and...
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