Blackburn Meadows
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Blackburn Meadows is an area of land just inside the Sheffield city border at Tinsley, England. It became the location of the main sewage treatment works for the city in 1884, and is now one of the la
The nature reserve, with the Magna Science Adventure Centre in the background
Some of the settling tanks at the treatment works
Jordan Bridge, which carried the internal railway over the River Don Navigation to reach the sludge beds
Diagram of the sewage sludge incineration process
Thrybergh
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Thrybergh is a village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham in South Yorkshire, England, 3 miles from Rotherham. It had a population of 4,327 in 2001, reducing to 4,058 at the 201
Blackburn Meadows
…delivering wagons to Kilnhurst tip. Kilnhurst tip eventually became full, and in January 1948, regular tipping operations ceased, after a new tip at Thrybergh opened. Tipping continued at Kilnhurst sporadically, until it was closed in 1959. During its operational life up to 1948, 2,917,480 tons of sewage…
War memorial and public house
St Leonard's church
Thrybergh Park country house