Proposed GREAT VICTORIAN WAY. SIR JOSEPH PAXTON MP 1855 old antique map chart
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'Great Victorian Way proposed by Sir Joseph Paxton MP and referred to in his evidence of 7th June 1855'
The Great Victorian Way was an unbuilt infrastructure project, plans for which were presented to the Parliamentary Select Committee on Metropolitan Communications by its designer Joseph Paxton in June 1855. It proposed a twelve-mile covered loop around much of central and west London, integrating a glass-canopied road and pneumatic (smoke free) railway, with shops and houses to each side. Three river crossings would have continued the arcade, creating inhabited bridges. The proposal was sympathetically received by the committee, and endorsed by Prince Albert prior to the passing of an act of Parliament which authorised its construction, but it was ultimately abandoned on cost grounds when the 1858 "Great Stink" resulted in London's infrastructure investment being channeled to the construction of Bazalgette's sewer network. The later Inner Circle (Circle Line), completed in 1884, roughly followed the route of The Great Victorian Way.
Size 41 x 65 cm | 16.0 x 25.5 inches
Date Published: 23 July 1855
Type: Antique map with original colour, prepared for consideration by the British Parliamentary Select Committee on Metropolitan Communication
Author: Paxton, Sir Joseph
Publication: Metropolitan Communications Hansard Report
Condition: Fair |
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