Sir Joseph Bazalgette, CB.
Engineer of the London main drainage system and of this embankment.
Born 1819 Died 1891.
{Above the bust:}
Flumini vincula posvit
{He put the river in chains}
Bronze 1899
WC2, Victoria Embankment
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Sir Joseph Bazalgette
Civil engineer. Born in Enfield. Â As chief engineer of the Metropolitan Board...
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Sir Joseph Bazalgette
Shame about the nose. On the platform at the unveiling ceremony Brock was made Knight Commander of the Bath.
Distinctively, apart from featuring women, the statue portrays a joyous soldier, as opposed to the more usual sombre figure.
Unveiled on Windrush Day. A very simple design, we think the horizontal obelisk may represent the fallen.
This WW1 memorial was destroyed by a WW2 bomb. There surely must be photos of it in situ but we've not found any. A stone seat was erect...
Unusually high quality plaque, for the date.
