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A History of the County of Oxford
… included street-lighting, repair and scavenging of roads, sewage disposal and drainage, water supply, public health, … inspector to oversee abattoirs, ran the waterworks and sewage works, and administered the cemetery, along with the … only gradually replaced by pail- or earth-closets. 251 Sewage and industrial waste discharged into the Windrush, …
A History of the County of Essex
… linked Wivenhoe's sewerage system with Colchester's Hythe sewage works. 91 A gas company was formed in 1861, perhaps …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… supply were held up. Wombridge ratepayers had to deal with sewage and industrial effluent flowing in from Priorslee, and …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… many of them open. Other households had pails and threw sewage into their yards or the street. The disposal of ash … main system. 40 The U.D.C. built the Trench Farm sewage works, Hortonwood, in 1904-5; 41 it was one of those …
A History of the County of Essex
… 124 In 1882 they were empowered to purchase land for sewage works on the river Ching to serve the north-east …
A History of the County of Sussex
… 29 Main drains were laid at Blackstone c. 1962, 30 a sewage works being constructed northeast of the hamlet. 31 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in the 1690 s; fissures in the bedrock were used for sewage disposal until the mid 20th century. 13 In the 19th …
A History of the County of Oxford
… was responsible for water supply, drainage, sanitation, sewage disposal, highway and street maintenance, public … system was discussed in the 1870s 85 but in the 1930s sewage was still drained to cesspits or to fissures in the …
A History of the County of Sussex
… back by sanitation problems. The continued discharge of sewage into the sea in front of the town made the sands … by 1859 the sands had recovered from the effects of sewage 31 and the number of visitors had greatly increased. …
A History of the County of Sussex
… which would have created a stagnant lake of sea-water and sewage, 37 and the board incurred heavy expenditure on both … was taken over by the Southern Water Authority in 1974. 97 Sewage disposal was a great problem in Worthing during much … over sewers in 1803; 98 in the same year they laid a sewage drain northwards from the town to the Teville pond, 99 …