crossness
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Photograph: Mark Lovatt/Getty Images/Flickr Open Pumping stations were built at Chelsea, Deptford, Abbey Mills and Crossness to raise up sewage from low-lying areas and discharge it onwards to the outfalls.
From The Guardian • Apr. 4, 2016
In fifth place, with 10% of the votes, was the Crossness Engine House, and the James Watt rotative beam engine.
From BBC • Oct. 6, 2014
Abbey Mills Pumping Station, like its twin at Crossness south of the river, is a glorious Temple of Turd.
From The Guardian • Jul. 30, 2012
In order to make these experiments, samples of fresh raw sewage were taken at Crossness at intervals of one hour during the day.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 799, April 25, 1891 by Various
The place was called Crossness from the dead chief, but the crew stayed all the winter and loaded the ship with vines and grapes, and in the spring came back to Eric in Greenland.
From Prince Henry the Navigator, the Hero of Portugal and of Modern Discovery, 1394-1460 A.D. With an Account of Geographical Progress Throughout the Middle Ages As the Preparation for His Work. by Beazley, C. Raymond
