Why Joseph Bazalgette’s Sewer System Is Still Amazing Today | How The VIctorians Built Britain 

Also with how quick they can get away with crime

Nothing changed lol. Sad

@@JKHTX and all of us working class, rich, middle and poor are one big team, we need too work together

Joe biden is suffering from dementia

that shit gets fixed really fast, literaly.

Also the best potential alternative definition of the Buckingham Palace I've ever heard.

@18:24 just here doing god's work.

I came here to post this, I definitely laughed out loud, perfect comment.

I design lift stations for a living and I wish I was given free reign. But alas, all I can do is a round hole with submersible pumps. Sad...

That and“there’s a rumor they grew very good tomatoes.” I cracked up on that one too- after mentally gagging lol.

Imagine finishing those sewers and feeling the success of making your city cleaner than anyone could ever fathom in their wildest dreams. Dropping the death rate of your people, even.

There are more documentaries about that amazing system. The earlier sewers dated from medieval times where natural streams were diverted. As London grew the old system didn't have enough capacity, apart from the obvious health hazards. Some inventions like decompression were also used in coal mines. Machines pushed fresh air in mine shafts so people could dig deeper. And of course there were horrific accidents as well.

They are an absolute marvel of engineering.

What’s crazy is that all of it was dug and bricked entirely by the hands of men- not machines!

Yes, very punny video! 😂

I’ve never understood that either, history has and will always be my favorite subject

It's all in presentation and the ability to put yourself in another person's era. It took channels like this to get me interested. I had horrible history teachers that leeches any interest out of the subject.

@@celestef9727 I can understand how that makes sense. I had an awesome history teacher in junior high and high school, so there began my passion.

@@kellyshomemadekitchen That's what I didn't have. I'm a passionate life long learner and this was the one subject that didn't resonate. It wasn't until I saw an amazing limited series on another platform about WWII that it sparked. From there I deep dived and have learned so much. When I find amazing channels like this I binge all weekend. I'm so happy there are people passionate enough to do programs like this and give little details that makes history come alive.

People that pressure wash charge more. 😂🤣 Just messin!

Honestly should have charged more 😰 sounds horrible

That's much less then most mediocre Consultants take, sounds like you've done a job that required a very specific skillset (and the will of doing it), I think you could have charged twice the amount.

@@Brahlam believe me, when I realized how fast they said ‘yes’ I was kicking myself.

Sounds like you will have a seat in heaven in the next life. Cannot imagine doing something like that.

the cycle never ends..

It's still in use in several countries. Back in the days in Paris people started to get ill from a fountain like that. It was next to a mass grave. Fluids from corpses leaked in the ground water... The Palace of Versailles was built without sewers. Only the king and his wive had something that looked like a bathroom. Other people living at the court and guests at parties had to figure out where to relief themselves. Many did in the hallways and gardens. There were servants cleaning up the mess before the king would pass by. It smelled so horrible that the king had citrus trees planted. The funny thing is that the palace gardens had a sophisticated water system for the many fountains, a sewer would have been easy. In Dutch cities like Amsterdam canals were used. The stench in the summer was so bad that people with money would flee to the countryside. In the 1800's things went really south with chemical factories dumping waste, many people died. It was then where the city council decided to build a sewer system.

The silver used to plate the cup actually naturally kills germs. The explanation is something about how the natural ionization inherent to silver means that it punctures through bacteria and viruses by stealing electrons. Silver is actually what most medical scalpels today are still made from or coated in.

Pretty shitty.. Anal was not the freshest either. These nasties gave illness to the world and killed off indigenous tribes with their funky ways. Innovative in each way except ones where animals excel. Advanced? Or ignorant?

@@zanaib4923 What?

@@zanaib4923 although life in Europe hundreds of years ago was disgusting.... so was the rest of the world. Europeans didn’t spread disease to indigenous populations because they were so dirty and the indigenous were so clean.... it was because the had an stronger immunity to certain diseases and the indigenous populations didn’t. When populations separate for a long time they face different diseases and have different immunities. In the case of European contact with North and South American tribes, Europeans had immunity to many diseases that they contracted through the advanced and increased animal husbandry. Most indigenous tribes didn’t partake in animal husbandry and those that did had a different set of animals that would carry different diseases. The Old world had these diseases for centuries if not millennia and the New world had no protection when they inevitably collided. So I think that comment is pretty ignorant. The issue isn’t that simple and has a lot more nuance...

@@jeffreycater5447 Sorry but, no. There are many accounts of indigenous peoples from various places in the world who, upon coming into contact with Europeans, remarked on how foul smelling the euros were, even after being off-ship long enough to have washed. Fact is, compared to the vast majority of other peoples, Europeans seldom bothered to wash themselves and were really unhygienic, infested often with various mites and insects as well. It's true they had immunity to more diseases, especially compared to the indigenous people of the Americas and the Pacific, and that's because almost all of the animals that you can 'tame' and use for labour and food and whatnot are "old world" animals, very few of them existed elsewhere. This gave Europeans (and Asians, as well as Africans to a lesser extent) a leg-up on immunity to the various zoonotic diseases that came with living in very close quarters with animals, but it also contributed the foul-smelling-ness that Europeans took for granted as acceptable, which other people didn't. So yes, Europeans did smell bad and bathe way less compared to most indigenous peoples from places where there was no contact for centuries or millennia between the "old worlders" and "new worlders" (as well as Pacific Islanders, Oceanians, etc.).

I’m trying to figure out how they cooked. Every smell must’ve been mixed with shit and death.

Rim shot!

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It exposes white European culture for how disgusting and filth ridden it really is. African nations are laughing at you, Britain

I’m not british nor american to have the slightest clue who michael beurk is but i must ask, is he the guy who played magneto?

@@ImEmpTy295 Magneto was played by Ian McKellen (Gandalf :) ). I agree both men share an uncanny ressemblance. And they both are visitors of tunnels and caves !

Came here looking for this comment.

Henry Badman is a pretty awesome name too.

*badass

thank you. came here for this

wow roger

Auger , its in your name to snake some drainns

Hardly the first people to do that. Scot has one t.

@@staceydoris2233 I suppose we should be grateful it wasn't Scotch

@@hogwashmcturnip8930 Lol. I like scotch.

Romans ruled most of great Britain for hundreds of years before it was Great Britain, the spectacle is a society tackling its own challenges as they arise, hence the Victorian era context

Romans go home.

@@adrianovasco3096 People called the Roman they go the House?

It's really mind boggling how that technology wasn't adopted by more civilizations.

"the Mesopotamians had toilets, sewer systems and irrigation from the Nile " lol, bullshit !

I thought the Mesopotamians had sewage systems 4000bc?

@@geemcspankinson It was the Minoans of Crete that had sewer systems.

All it takes is one generation of serious disruption of the transmission of knowledge and people are back to crapping on the ground.

The cups were silver plated which actually helps prevent disease. Silver has antiseptic properties. Also it's still better than drinking filthy pond water and the better off likely would have used their own containers for the water

I was looking to see if anyone else was giggling about Jon Snow's appearance lol. That's funny as

Imagine coming from the countryside because you really need work and your head's been filled with ideas that the big city is the place to be and then you show up with just enough money to survive until you (hopefully quickly) find work, and then you smell all that. How tempting it must have been to save one's first paycheque for a ticket our of that place.

Still better than straight up pissing in your own fireplace or a corner of the room XD. Wild times

@@JFlick-nz1jj at least it steams away in the fire.

Better than taking a piss on your front door and then going back inside...

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Victorian England was literally at war every 5 minutes

Only they were. What do you think paid for it? Money is all war is about.

Ignorant comment, how did this make it to the top. RU-vid needs to stop hiding down votes

I know right lol

Victorian England owned half the planet at the time. This is when the phrase "the sun never sets on the British empire" came from.

i want a bidet

Source? Wage earning Dad’s drinking away their paycheck led to chronic poverty, malnutrition, disease, homelessness & death. Addiction made it even worse, add in Domestic Violence & Drunken fights leading to incarceration. I am 61. Please refer me to your source?

@@annieseaside I heard it in a documentary years ago so I can’t remember which one it was. I just remember them saying that beer and ale had been a staple of peoples diets, especially in the countryside where water quality could be sketchy. Beer is safe the drink and it has a lot of calories, which helped if your family was poor and couldn’t afford enough food to keep you going.

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