Kilnhurst
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Kilnhurst is a village in South Yorkshire, England, on the banks of the River Don and the Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation. It grew up around the coal mining, ceramics, glass, brick-making and
St Thomas's church
Kilnhurst Ings showing the embankment designed to contain the washland during periods of high water on the Don
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
Kilnhurst
…lines that served the village, the Sheffield City sewage department ran a tip between 1892 and 1959, which was used to dump sewage sludge from the Blackburn Meadows sewage treatment works at Tinsley. Sheffield council negotiated with the Manchester, Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway Company, who built a junction…
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