Joseph Bazalgette

Sir Joseph William Bazalgette (28 March 1819 – 15 March 1891) was one of the great Victorian civil engineers. As the chief engineer of London's Metropolitan Board of Works, his major achievement was the creation of a sewer network for central London that helped relieve the city from cholera epidemics, while beginning the clean-up of the River Thames that had reached a nadir with "The Great Stink" of 1858.

Other works

• Albert Embankment (1869)
• Victoria Embankment (1870)
• Chelsea Embankment (1874)
• Putney Bridge (1886)
• Albert Bridge (1884; modifications)
• Hammersmith Bridge (1887)
• the Woolwich Ferry (1889)
• Battersea Bridge (1890)
• Charing Cross Road
• Garrick Street
• Northumberland Avenue
• Shaftesbury Avenue
• early plans for the Blackwall Tunnel (1897)
• proposal for what later became Tower Bridge