At the listed coordinated you will find an example of the remains of a Victorian stink pipe. Unfortunately the top is missing. I cannot find out any information regarding this particular pipe but below is the history of how pipes came into existence.
The summer of 1858 in London was known as 'the Great Stink' as there was a strong smell of untreated waste throughout the city. Joseph Bazalgette, the chief engineer of London's Metropolitian Board of Works, proposed channelling waste through street sewers, into main intercepting sewers. These would transport waste towards the tidal part of the Thames so that it would be swept out to the sea.
The network of wide sewer tunnels required venting, which is why stink pipes were incorporated into the system. Based on the concept of a locomotive's blast-pipe - an idea allegedly invented by a Victorian surgeon, chemist and engineer named Sir Goldsworthy Gurney - stink pipes were made out of cast iron and placed along main sewer routes.
Some could be more than nine metres tall, which was deemed necessary in order to direct the toxic fumes a suitable distance above street level and be unaffected by down-draughts. The pipes were located near the highest and lowest points in the system which encouraged the through flow of air.
Today these pipes are often disregarded or mistaken for broken lamp posts.
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