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Victorian cholera engineering has become one of east London's quietest wildlife havens. The Middlesex Filter Beds were built in 1852-53 by the East London Waterworks Company, three years after the city's worst cholera outbreak, to filter impurities from the River Lea and supply the growing East End with safer water. At their height, together with the later Essex beds across the river, the works delivered an average of 42.5 million gallons a day; in 1969 the outdated beds were replaced by the Cop...