THE STORY: “THE CRYING WALLS OF BERMONDSEY RAILWAY VIADUCT”

”A place, an Epidemic and the devastating Power of Dirty Water”

“Welcome to the Capital of CHOLERA! To nightmarish, thought-provoking life a world in which

a swift but very unpleasant death can be just a glass of water away.”

In February 1836 The Railway Viaduct brought tremendous changes to the way people lived and worked in the area of of Bermondsey. When London was blooming and growing like no other city in the world, Bermondsey at the same time was a place of poverty, dirt and was by many recognized as the worst slum and the Venice of Drains.

“It is the summer of 1854. Cholera has seized London with unprecedented intensity. A metropolis of more than 2 million people, London is just emerging as a one of the first modern cities in the world. But lacking the infrastructure necessary to support its dense population - garbage removal, clean water, sewers - the city has become the perfect breeding ground for a terrifying disease no one knows how to cure.

Enter Vibrio Cholerae…”