London's River Turned Murky: A Summer of Filth, 1858
The city of London breathed in the heat of Victorian Era summer, 1858. But it was not merely the sun that scorched the metropolis. An even more repellent force infested its very heart: the River Thames. Years of industrial effluents had transformed London's lifeblood into a foul-smelling mire. The stench was overwhelming, a miasma that clung to eve