River Don Navigation
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The River Don Navigation was the result of early efforts to make the River Don in South Yorkshire, England, navigable between Fishlake and Sheffield. The Dutch engineer Cornelius Vermuyden had re-rout
The Aldwarke Eurobarge Lock, complete with traffic lights
The weir near Aldwarke Lock
The Straddle Warehouse, Victoria Quays (formerly the Sheffield Basin), Sheffield City Centre
Two narrow boats dwarfed by the size of Sprotbrough Lock
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