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Old London Bridge stood for six hundred years, carried houses and shops on its back, and dammed the river so completely that the Thames froze upstream. When they tore it down in 1831 the river never froze again.
Read the story →Between 1608 and 1814 the river through London froze solid often enough to hold fairs on its surface. Then they tore down a bridge, and it never froze again.
Read the story →London's sewer system was funded in eighteen days. It took a heatwave, a river of feces, and a Parliament that could not breathe.
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