Clean Water Ended the Age of Cholera in City ; the 1832 Cholera Epidemic in Exeter Claimed the Lives of 440 People and Led to a Rethinking of How and Where the City's Water Supply Was Taken From the River Exe. Visitors Can Learn More at Pynes Water Treatment Works This Week

Express & Echo (Exeter, UK) › September 09, 2009

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IF you are feeling as fit as a fiddle today then why not treat yourself to a nostalgic trip back to the days when you might not have been so lucky.

Special tours are being held on Thursday and Friday, taking visitors back through time to see how clean water ended the age of cholera in Exeter.

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Clean Water Ended the Age of Cholera in City ; the 1832 Cholera Epidemic in Exeter Claimed the Lives of 440 People and Led to a Rethinking of How and Where the City's Water Supply Was Taken From the River Exe. Visitors Can Learn More at Pynes Water Treatment Works This Week

One exclusive tour of Pynes Water Treatment Works near Cowley Bridge will take each day, hosted by South West ...

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