Joseph Bazalgette black plaque
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# Carting Lane: Where Engineering Met Necessity Standing on Carting Lane and gazing up at this solitary Victorian lamp post, you're witnessing the final survivor of Sir Joseph Bazalgette's ingenious solution to one of 19th-century London's most pressing problems. When the revolutionary Victoria Emb...
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Carting Lane
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The adjacent street light is the last remaining sewer gas destructor lamp in the City of Westminster. Installed in association with Sir Joseph Bazalgette's revolutionary Victoria Embankment sewer, which opened in 1870, this cast iron ornamental lamp standard with original lantern continues to burn off residual biogas.