Bovril boats, also known formally as sludge vessels,[1] were specially designed sewage dumping vessels that operated on the River Thames from 1887[2] to 1998. Their task was to remove London's human solid waste from Beckton and Crossness for disposal on the ebb tide at sea, at Black Deep, an extremely deep part of the North Sea fifteen miles off Foulness, on one of the main approaches to the Thames Estuary. Similar boats operated on the Manchester Ship Canal, the Tyne, and elsewhere.
^Bentwich, Helen (1962). Our Councils, The Story of Local Government. Routledge and Kegan Paul Ltd. p. 19.
^National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on a Multimedium Approach to Municipal Sludge Management, United States. Environmental Protection Agency (1978). Multimedium management of municipal sludge: a report to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. National Academies Press. p. 40. ISBN 9780309027335.
Bovrilboats, also known formally as sludge vessels, were specially designed sewage dumping vessels that operated on the River Thames from 1887 to 1998...
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merged to become Unilever. In his thirties, Lord Leverhulme had taken a boat trip and fallen in love with the Western Isles of Scotland. In May 1918,...
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