There are better people, though. You are setting the bar low.
Such as?
Arguably this bloke who saved the city from The Great Stink of 1858 (Sadly Thames Water now trying to recreate this).
If I've got this story right, Bazalgette indirectly helped help the development of London's trains (I couldn't find a reference to it on the internet though, so it may be a fiction). The cost of Bazalgett's sewer system was so great that most other development projects in London had to be cancelled. One of those projects was to build a huge circular covered arcade which would allow people to walk around the city unhindered by traffic or bad weather. Several years later when the Circle Line was built, much of its route followed the sites of properties which had been compulsory purchased to enable the building of the doomed covered walkway.
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He's one of our o-o-own
William Henry Barlow
He's one of our own!
If I've got this story right, Bazalgette indirectly helped help the development of London's trains (I couldn't find a reference to it on the internet though, so it may be a fiction). The cost of Bazalgett's sewer system was so great that most other development projects in London had to be cancelled. One of those projects was to build a huge circular covered arcade which would allow people to walk around the city unhindered by traffic or bad weather. Several years later when the Circle Line was built, much of its route followed the sites of properties which had been compulsory purchased to enable the building of the doomed covered walkway.