The induction of seven iconic engineers from or connected to the City of London was announced at a ceremony on the High Walkway of Tower Bridge, including an introduction by the Lord Mayor, Alderman Professor Michael Mainelli. The new inductees are Robert Hooke, Sir Joseph Bazalgette, Sir John Wolfe Barry, Sir Harold Edgar Yarrow, Fred Edwards, Sir Robin Saxby and Dame Ann Dowling as nominated by the 7 participating Livery Companies consisting of the Armourers and Brasiers, Water Conservators, Ironmongers, Shipwrights, Scientific Instrument Makers, Information Technologists and Engineers.
Our Master Dylan Barker read out the citation for our nominee Sir Joseph Bazalgette, who was responsible for separating London’s sewage from its water supply through a series of intercepting sewers. This relieved the City of its cholera and typhus epidemics, that had killed over 40,000 people between 1831 and 1866 and cleaned up the tidal section of the River Thames.
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