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Encyclopedia: Metropolitan Board of Works
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The Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works was a public utility board in Melbourne, Australia set up to provide water supply, sewerage and sewage treatment functions for the city. It also came to manage huge areas of parkland and other open space. It was abolished in 1992 by Jeff Kennett's Liberal...
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Established under the Metropolis Management Act 1855, the first body with a responsibility to handle activities on a wider basis than the vestry level. Initiated a major sewer reconstruction program after The Great Stink, including the construction of the Thames Embankment.
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Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works, State of Victoria - Australian Science at Work Corporate entry - A register of the many industries, corporations, research institutions, Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works (1891 - 1990s)
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The paper entitled "Sir Joseph William Bazalgette (1819-1891): Engineer to the Metropolitan Board of Works" by D P Smith is published in Transactions of the Newcomen Society, 1986-87 Vol 58.
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Victorian Institute of Engineers. List of Presidents 1883 - 1944...
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Owen tells in absorbing detail the story of the operations of the Metropolitan Board of Works, its political and other problems, and its limited but significant accomplishments--including the laying down of 83 miles of sewers and the building of the Thames... 2. The Creation of the Metropolitan Board of Works...
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Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works (M.M.B.W.) - Bicentenary study by distinguished Fellows of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering of development of technology over two hundred years.
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Whistler Correspondence: JW to Metropolitan Board of Works, 23 May 1878 [04059], The Correspondence of James McNeill Whistler, 1. Metropolitan Board of Works This is a draft of the letter of the same date ( #04060). On 14 August 1877 JW ordered plans for a new house and studio, the White House, in Tite Street,
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Whistler Correspondence: JW to Metropolitan Board of Works, 20 May 1878 [04058], The Correspondence of James McNeill Whistler, University of Glasgow 1. Metropolitan Board of Works The Board retained the lease of JW's new house, the White House in Tite Street, because he had not completed the alterations they demanded.
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