Awards and Memorials
Bazalgette was knighted in 1875, and elected President of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1883.
A Greater London Council blue plaque commemorates Bazalgette at 17 Hamilton Terrace in St John's Wood in North London.
A formal monument (see photo at right) on the riverside of the Victoria Embankment in central London commemorates Bazalgette's genius.
A living fictionalised tribute to the genius, the work and the ideals of Bazalgette can be found in the historic Victorian novel The Worms of Euston Square by William Sutton. This portrays Bazalgette in a heroic light as a man with an innate social conscience who employs his skills to improve the city that he loves and who plays an active role in rehousing those whose homes were demolished during the enormous work of construction.
Dulwich College has a scholarship in his name, for design and technology or for mathematics and science.
The 2003 BBC docudrama series Seven Wonders of the Industrial World commemorated Bazalgette's London sewers construction in its episode 4 "The Sewer King".
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