Recreating sights and sounds from the period leading up to London’s Great Stink of 1858.
It is said that you are never more than 6M from a rat, but in 1842 there were around 150,000 cesspools in London, so chances are, you’d be closer.
Cholera as a water-born disease killed 14,000 in London in 1849, but miasma (’foul air’) was thought to be its origin, up until
31 August – 3 September 1854, 127 people died in Broad St/Golden Square in Soho. One week later that figure had risen to 500.