Northern Outfall Sewer - commemorative plaque

The plaque is on the side of the metal aqueduct carrying the trunk sewer over the River Lea TQ3783 : Lee Navigation: Pipe bridge and Northern Outfall Sewer. The text [included here to aid online searching] reads: "Metropolitan Board of Works / Northern Outfall Sewer / Constructed 1862-63 / John Thwaites Esqr Chairman / J W Bazalgette Engineer / Edmund Cooper Resident Engineer / Charles Anderson Clerk of Works / George Furness Contractor".

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