A Preview
"This wide riverside road and the gardens beside it are the Victoria Embankment, and none of this land is natural. It's built on top of the river. To understand why, you have to go back to the summer of eighteen fifty-eight, when London smelled so bad the government nearly ran away. They called it the Great Stink."
Hear the full story in the app — narrated and timed to play right where you're standing.
The Reveal
This stop is part of the tour’s larger story. An optional reveal at the end lets you revisit which details stayed perfectly honest and which got a little extra help.
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Hear the full story at Victoria Embankment & the Great Stink
This is just one of 9 stops on the How London Was Built tour. Download the app, put in your headphones, and experience it for real.
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