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'Dignify it!' Meantime, painters of the Norwich school were recording riverside scenes that cast a romantic light on the squalor of daily life (in line with John Crome's last words to his son, which are said to have been: ' … paint for fame, and if your subject is a pig-sty dignify it') 'An Act for the Better Sewering Of Norwich' passed by Parliament in 1867 brought some improvement, in the form of Whitlingham Sewage Farm; its pumping station still stands between the railway and the river at Trowse Millgate. They didn't get it quite right to start with: the original pipes were defective and let in water from underground springs, which diluted the sewage and doubled the quantity to be pumped! |
A final clean-up of industrial pollution had to be carried out in today's relatively prosperous Norwich,
before the new Riverside development could be built. The ground under demolished factories was saturated
with engine-oil that had to be removed by pumping and chemical treatment.
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