Victorian London Through Time

The Victorian era saw great changes to Britain's capital. This book illustrates the 19th-century aspects of London that the Victorians were so proud of: the pioneering public health engineering of Bazalgette's system of intercepting sewers; the magnificent public buildings such as the "new" Gothic H [...]
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The Victorian era saw great changes to Britain's capital. This book illustrates the 19th-century aspects of London that the Victorians were so proud of: the pioneering public health engineering of Bazalgette's system of intercepting sewers; the magnificent public buildings such as the "new" Gothic House of Commons and Big Ben; impressive new expanded British Museum, the Classical National Gallery and Gothic Natural History Museum; the great railway termini and railway hotels; and, of course, the world's first underground railway. The book also looks at the less savory side of Victorian life: public hangings at Tyburn (now Marble Arch), and the world known to Charles Dickens, contrasting scenes of squalor around St. Giles to the magnificence of the the Inns of Courts.