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Picture No 12008529
Date 1868
Description Work at the Embankment, London 1868
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Workmen improving the public stretch of road alone the River Thames, 70 to 100 feet in width and stretching from Westminster to Blackfriars more than a mile and a-half in length, in place of muddy shores which at low tide was the seed-bed of diseases.
Source Engraving by Graphotype in 'The Cottager and Artisan', 1 February 1868, page 52
Credit Mary Evans Picture Library
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