River Fleet, 2007
One of the largest tributaries of the Thames in the early days of London was the River Fleet, which was a water source and transportation route from Roman times onward. As late as 1826, it was recorded that the river was 65 feet wide as it passed through the area that is now Camden Town. In the 1850s, a series of sanitation crises led London to build a massive sewer network under the engineer Bazalgette. A huge brick tunnel was built around the River Fleet as part of this effort, well over twenty feet high at its largest points, and it serves now as one of the largest sewer channels in the city. This photo shows an intersection of two channels of this tunnel.
20 x 30 Digital C-Print Print # 1/20 London, England, UK
Photo by Steve Duncan
