City of London Regulation required every man to keep clean the front of his own tenement. Regulations for carrying out this edict were made in the reign of Edward I., and in year 1297 with regard to cleaning the streets. It was enacted that everyone should keep clean the front of his own tenement, that…
In 1281 City of London Regulation prohibited pigs wandering in the streets, and a further Regulation in 1297 required the removal of pigsties from the streets. Regulation as to wearing Furs, and clearing the Streets: »It is provided and commanded, that no woman of the City shall from henceforth go to market, or in the…
Actually, however, recorded agitation about smoke began in England. In 1257 when Queen Eleanor moved from Nottingham to Tutbury Castle. As recounted, she told her husband, King Henry III, she could no longer stand the “unendurable smoke of the sea coal.” Translated, that means she couldn’t stand the neighbors’ burning bituminous coal. As a result…
During the Middle Ages, it was not uncommon for those parts of London which were near the Thames to use the river as their main source of culinary water. Away from the river, houses were built chiefly where there were beds of gravel or loam. These beds afforded a good water supply to shallow wells…
Paris constructed an aqueduct to supply water to the city.