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unusual facts about Thames Estuary


Bovril boats

Their task was to remove London's sludge waste from Beckton and Crossness for disposal on the ebb tide at sea, at Black Deep, an extremely deep part of the North sea located fifteen miles off Foulness, on one of the main approaches to the Thames Estuary.


Corringham Light Railway

The London, Tilbury and Southend Railway (LTSR)had a branch from Thames Haven Junction, near Stanford-le-Hope, to Thames Haven on the Thames Estuary.

Halcrow Group

The Thames Hub combines rail, freight logistics, aviation, renewable energy and its transmission, flood protection and regional development in the Thames Estuary and connects this infrastructure to a trade and utilities spine that runs the length of the UK.

London Oxford Airport

In 1941, pioneer aviatrix Amy Johnson crashed in the Thames Estuary while on a flight en route to Oxford Airport from Blackpool.

Port of London Authority

Brackish water detailing the type of water of the Thames Estuary as opposed to the North Sea's Kent/Essex Strait which in terms of sea water salinity stops at Gravesend

Thames Hub Airport

In November 2011 Lord Foster launched the concept of the Thames Hub - an integrated infrastructure development in the Thames Estuary which included a high-speed rail line, a combined Thames road and rail crossing and a flood protection barrier incorporating Renewable energy generation#Hydropower renewable energy generation, and a new 150 million passenger hub airport.

Thames Valley

It rarely includes either the source of the Thames at Thames Head in Gloucestershire, or any part of Wiltshire, and does not include the informal entities Central London or the Thames Gateway which surrounds the Thames Estuary.

The Long Memory

A crime thriller filmed on the North Kent Marshes on the Thames Estuary and the dingy backstreets of Gravesend (now long since demolished), its bleak setting and grim atmosphere have led to its acclaim as a British example of film noir.


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Edwin Manton

Shortly after his birth, the family moved to Westcliff-on-Sea on the Thames estuary, a location that gave him a lifelong affection for expanses of water and sky and which he much later recalled by acquiring paintings of the area by the English painter John Wonnacott.

Halcrow Group

Thames Hub (UK; concept 2011) - Halcrow is providing technical advice to architects Foster + Partners for its Thames Hub proposal for integrated infrastructure development in the Thames Estuary in the UK.

Maplin

Maplin Sands, a series of mudflats on the northern bank of the Thames estuary

Thames Hub

Thames Hub integrated infrastructure vision, a proposal for infrastructure development in the Thames Estuary in the United Kingdom