History – other joys in London in the 18th century

June 15th, 2010 by admin | Filed under Earth Footwear Articles

Yes, yes. There were many other delights of London in the 18th century. It 's always seemed to rain, so Cesspool of human waste, especially pots, rain, puddles smell above all to make any place. Cars with big heavy iron wheels would be united through this stinking pools and wash these worthless liberal horror of all the hapless pedestrian who was unable to escape.

To add to the pleasures, deathdogs, cats, rats, mice and horses were left to rot. Warning! You can also have more than one trip seems!

Now, the city's residents have running water – a kind. E 'come to hold them in wood that ran beneath the streets. This spring the company or bottled water is nothing new. The wealthy residents were able as a commodity to be purchased by private companies.

The more water that people used for drinking water comes from Teemsrivier.Unfortunately the river is a storage place God knows what else. It was full of boats of every type, because it was the left main artery. The water was dark, and an indeterminate color. Nobody thought this filter, it seems, or any attempt to protect it from contamination until the mid 19th. century.

Partly because the water was so suspicious, and partly for a while 'for obvious reasons in the first half of 18. centuryGin Craze see the Great. How in the world of work is always achieved, I have no idea. The beginning was great, strong, unregulated and inexpensive. As we said;

"Drunk for a penny, dead drunk. For two pennies.

Resellers of gin was found on most corners and along the streets and in London alone there were 8000 considered places where gin was sold openly.

Sanitation is unprecedented. There are private bathrooms, but only the most wealthy homes and notlatest 18. century. The acquisition of untreated water will remain stagnant cesspool created by rain and other waste of time until night, when people known as "men of the land and had cleared everything up.

There was a complex system of sewers, but is designed to carry away rainwater. The idea is good but the practical application of work necessary. It ultimately involves much more than just rainwater. There are records of public complaints, which showed that, apart water, sewer also bad for the pig pens and slaughterhouses.

The underground pipes were of poor construction also means that water supply has had an unfortunate habit of bars often enough. Suddenly sources in order to avoid interfering with any garbage from the streets and turned into an ugly smelly mix so the pedestrians had to Wade than they would realize what they have to do.

Reading all this now, we feel that must have been the closest thing to hell on> Earth, you can find. But so are the inhabitants of rich and poor, together with

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