In The 19Th Century The Pong From The Thames Was So Bad...

[sandyRoe]

...that there was talk of moving parliamentary sessions from Westminster to somewhere more salubrious.

I don't know how the river smells now but would it be as injurious to health as it was then?

[Old_Geezer]

Maybe if you drank it.

Otherwise nowhere near.

[davebro3]

I see the rowers have kinda jumped on the bandwagon - Oxford blaming the Thames for making one of their crew sick.

[ichkeria]

And now the smell from the HoP is so bad, they are thinking of moving the Thames, boom boom.

[wolf63]

I would hate to live in London.

I live in a city centre - the city has less than 48,000 people.  It is beautiful and peaceful and is perfect for me.

😁

[10ClarionSt]

Well, the last time I walked on it, it seemed ok to me. 😊

[retrocop]

It gave plenty an excuse to drink mother's ruin though. Think Hogarth. 😄

[johnny.5]

the river Thames is one of the (if not the) cleanest city centre rivers in the world .

it has got so much cleaner ecently even encouraging dolphins back

however the recent heavy prolomged rainfall has increased polutants in all major english rivers 

 

[fiveleaves]

This was the reason they decided to build the sewers under London. A classic example of politicians only deciding to do something when their quality of life is directly affected

[Canary42]

The stink from outside the Palace of Westminster is now drowned out by the stink of corruption from within.