Upchurch, Otterham Quay, Low Tide c.1955
Photo ref:
U46011
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The sailing barges look very much at home bottomed- out on the creek mud. From the 1830s to the 1930s, barges like this brought manure from London for the fields, and gasworks ash and other refuse for the local brickworks. The barges would return to the metropolis with up to 80 tons of mud for the cement works, or with locally-made bricks demanded by the hugely expanding capital.
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