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Tideway Heritage Interpretation Strategy HERITAGE INTERPRETATION STRATEGY ‘RIVER OF LIBERTY’ SUMMARY DOCUMENT Contemporary Culture Liquid History | 1 Foreword I am delighted that Historic England is working with Tideway and its partners to deliver this Heritage Interpretation Strategy. The Thames Tideway Tunnel will provide many new opportunities to better understand and appreciate our relationship with the Thames. The Heritage Interpretation Strategy It was a triumph of Victorian ambition is a project-wide framework for the and engineering for the public good. Thames Tideway Tunnel Project, Running alongside and integrating with prepared in consultation with Historic the historic system, the new 25km England. The Strategy sets out the tunnel will stretch from Acton Storm historic and cultural themes that will Tanks in the west to Abbey Mills and inspire the project designers, artists, on to Beckton Sewage Treatment and engineers in delivering the new Works in the east. The scheme is public realm, landscaping, art and driven from 24 work sites, and will infrastructure created by this project. create four acres of new publically This approach is key to getting the accessible land. best for the public out of any new infrastructure project, and the Tideway Taking the concept “River of Liberty” Project is truly monumental. as its overarching theme, the Heritage Interpretation Strategy looks at the While the project is challenging, it is Thames as a rich and complex an immensely exciting opportunity to allegory, encompassing the delivery of build on the achievements and vision London from the tyranny of disease, Duncan Wilson - of Sir Joseph Bazalgette and those dynamic concepts of personal liberty, Chief Executive, Historic England brave Victorian engineers who fought and individual stories which reflect the to build a cleaner, healthier London many communities and aspirations for the benefit of all its inhabitants. associated with the Thames. Bazalgette’s sewer system, built between 1855 and 1865, used 318 The project will not only safeguard our million hand-laid bricks. It saw the precious environment. It will create construction of the Chelsea and new landscapes, artworks, and public Victoria embankments and the experiences which reflect the river’s fabulous pumping stations at Chelsea, rich history and reconnect us to the Greenwich, Crossness and Abbey Thames, which is in many ways the Mills. The historic sewer system lifeblood of our great capital. This changed not just the quality of the strategy establishes a compelling environment, but the appearance and cultural and historical narrative for the relationship of London to the Thames. Tideway Tunnel Project. 2 | | 3 Contents Foreword .............................1 Introduction 5 History ...............................6 Thames Tideway Tunnel 15 Project Overview ...................... 16 Interpretation Strategy 21 Principles, Aims and Objectives ........... 22 Interpretation Framework 29 Approach ............................ 31 Principle Theme: ‘River of Liberty’ .......... 32 Cultural Meanders and their Liberty Sites ....34 Heritage Design and Engagement 51 Implementation ........................ 52 4 | INTRODUCTION | 5 Introduction Landing fish at Billingsgate Market 1881 © Illustrated London News Ltd/ Mary Evans Picture Library 6 | INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION | 7 History The River Thames has always played a central role in the life of London; its rich and varied history encompasses all aspects of the city’s life – economic, social, political and cultural. It has been a source of food and water, a commercial routeway, a crossing-point, a cultural conduit, an international port and a focus of political power. The Thames’s ability to reach and influence people’s River has acted as a catalyst for the exponential growth ways of life has been far-reaching and is fundamental to of the city it has also not remained untouched and has understanding its long-term cultural legacy and heritage suffered as a result, not least through its continued use as a value. This has been both positive and negative. While the conduit for the removal of waste products. Thames Waterman – about to row two women across the River 1810 © Mary Evans Picture Library The Temple and River Thames 18th century © Antiquarian Images/Mary Evans 8 | INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION | 9 river users and introducing aesthetic pollution from waste products remaining on the foreshore. All of which contributes negatively on the health and wellbeing of the population and the city as a whole. The Thames Tideway Tunnel aims to address this. Its implementation will ensure that the ecology of the Thames in London continues to improve along with economic and social benefits. For the most part the scale and engineering of this major infrastructure project will remain unseen to the public, but will be represented and announced through the creation of four acres of new or improved public realm, comprising landscaped permanent structures connecting the existing sewer to the tunnel. The City Narcissus – London’s authorities are accused of being complacent about the city’s filth 1849 © Mary Evans Picture Library The physical condition of the river would have been deposited by the deteriorated over time to a point in sluggish movement of the water. the 19th century where it assumed The architect of this grand plan was Sir Joseph Bazalgette political importance and was the engineer Sir Joseph Bazalgette, perceived as an embodiment of the whose sewer system, embankments rotten heart of the body politic. Public and bridges not only shaped the health crises, in the form of cholera London we see today but are still epidemics, were the catalyst for action required to perform the same job. and the introduction of the first Public With continued growth London has Health Acts controlling the provision outgrown this sewerage system. The of water and the removal of waste. capacities originally allowed for have Fundamental to the success of these been significantly exceeded with measures was the development and the result that the sewers overflow, implementation of a drainage strategy discharging quantities of combined designed to capture London’s waste sewage into the River Thames. before it reached the Thames, while at Sewage discharges have a significant the same time reconfiguring the banks impact on the ecology of the river, as of the river in order to use the flow to well as posing risks to recreational wash away any detritus that previously Satire on the polluted water of London 1866 © Mary Evans Picture Library 10 | INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION | 11 18th century map of London © Antiquarian Images / Mary Evans Picture Library 16th century map of London and the River © Antiquarian Images / Mary Evans Picture Library 19th century map of London and the River © Antiquarian Images / Mary Evans Picture Library 12 | INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION | 13 What is unique about this work is that the design of the new public realm will be informed by the heritage of the River Thames and its riparian landscape. The approach to this is set out in the Tideway Heritage Interpretation Strategy. This document is a summary of the key points of that Strategy. The full document can be found at www.tideway.london/ art-and-heritage The Embankment and the River Thames 1940s © Mary Evans Picture Library / Photo Union Collection 14 | INTRODUCTION THAMES TiDEWAY TUNNEL | 15 Thames Tideway Tunnel Combined Sewer Outlet 16 | THAMES TiDEWAY TUNNEL THAMES TiDEWAY TUNNEL | 17 23 NEWHAM Tideway’s vision is to build a new sewer for London to TOWER HAMLETS Project Overview prevent the frequent pollution of the River Thames. It is not 24 Lee Tunnel 22 just to clean up the Thames but more excitingly to promote The Thames Tideway Tunnel project will extend London’s sewerage system21 to CITY OF LONDON CITY OF WESTMINSTER a change in the relationship between Londoners and their The Limehouse Cut cope with the demands of the city well into the 22nd century. It will comprise river: Reconnecting London with the Thames. 15 EALING the construction of a 25km storage and transfer tunnel14 running up to 65m Tideway has established bold legacy objectives: below the river. Starting1 in west London, the route of the tunnel generally 17 to protect and enhance the environment; to contribute to 16 KENSINGTON follows the course of the River ThamesAND CHELSEA to Limehouse where it then continues the rejuvenation of London’s river economy; to provide a HOUNSLOW 10 2 Greenwich 18 greater well-being for all and improved health for river users; north-east to Abbey Mills Pumping Station. There it will13 connect to connectionthe Lee HAMMERSMITH tunnel to provide improved public realm and safer communities. RICHMOND AND FULHAM 9 20 Tunnel, which will transferUPON the sewage to Beckton Sewage Treatment Works. 11 12 THAMES 19 The commitment to delivering this vision is embedded Construction of the tunnel3 will take place from 24 worksites spread out along 7 GREENWICH throughout the project organisation. The capital and the route, with the majority of sites adjacent8 to the river. On completion of the engagement projects and their target audiences have the potential to create a solid foundation upon which to LAMBETH SOUTHWARK works, Tideway will create new4 public realm with integrated artworks inspired 5 Frogmore connection enhance the River Thames as a defining landscape and tunnel LEWISHAM by the history of the riverWANDSWORTH and individual locales. cultural resource. 6 23 Map key NEWHAM West - Recreation to Industry: Society in Transition 1 Acton Storm
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