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.
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Source | Engraving by Graphotype in 'The Cottager and Artisan', 1 February 1868, page 52 |
Credit | Mary Evans Picture Library |
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