Reference & Reading

Over the years I have amassed something of a collection of disbound articles from academic journals, life-style magazines, and engineering publications. During the reign of Queen Victoria there seems to have been a sustained interest in all things under London, which is understandable given the proliferation of subterranean engineering projects in the capital during that era. There was also something of a peak in interest through the 1950s, as the centenary of the Main Drainage Works came and went. I have begun the arduous task of scanning in articles, which could take a while, especially given my track record of non-existent website updates.

Once I’ve scanned a majority of them in I’ll likely put them into some sort of categories, but for now I’ll just dump the links here chronologically. To save on throttling my bandwidth the articles are hosted on Google Drive and linked to from this page. Enjoy.

• The ancient River Fleet at Clerkenwell – The Table Book, 1827
• Representative Men At Home, Sir Joseph Bazalgette C.B. – Cassell’s Saturday Journal, 1890
• The London Sewage Question, By Crawford Barlow, B.A., M.I.C.E. – 1892
• Underground London – The Strand Magazine, 1898
• London Underground, by W. J. Wintle – The Harmsworth Magazine, 1899
• The Underground Detective, by Julian Rochefort – The Penny Pictoral Magazine, 1900
• The London Main Drainage – Black & White Budget, 1901
• The Human Mole, by H. Jenner-Fust III – The Royal Magazine, 1902
• The Construction of the Low-Level Sewer, by Lawrence Trench Wilson – Academic Paper, 1910
• Under London – Picture Post, 1950
• The Great Stink – Blue Peter Annual, 1983