Thu May 16 2002 at 16:22:07 Londoners who can remember the state of London and of the Thames about thirty-five years ago, before those vast undertakings of the Metropolitan Board of Works, the system of main drainage and the magnificent Thames Embankment, which have contributed so much to sanitary improvement and to the convenience and stateliness of this immense city, will regret the death of the able official chief engineer, Sir Joseph Bazalgette.
Illustrated London News, March 1891.
Thus read the obituary of perhaps one of the greatest engineers of the 19
th century. Sir Joseph William Bazalgette (1819-1891) was responsible for public health works on an unprecedented scale in the largest city the world had ever known - London. As an engineer he was well known and respected by such contemporaries as Sir William Cubitt, George Parker Bidder, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Robert Stephenson and Thomas Hawksley. Yet he is now largely forgotten, and despite the key rôle he played i
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HALIFAX As a COVID-19 outbreak continues in New Brunswick’s Edmundston region, some are asking whether the Atlantic provinces should reconsider the reopening of the Atlantic bubble, scheduled for next Monday. Nova Scotia’s picturesque Peggys Cove has withstood the highs and lows of the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on tourism. The owner of its gift shop and restaurant believes the first step to draw more visitors again is to reopen the Atlantic bubble. I think it’s good that it was announced early,” says John Campbell owner of the Sou Wester Restaurant and Gift Shop. “I think it’s good that it’s starting now and we just got to hope that it doesn’t get shut down.”