River Thames: Two Cormorants and A Factory
Taken on 16 December 2014 and uploaded 11 October 2024.
I’ve uploaded photos showing this factory before, so apologies: but it’s a favourite subject…
Taken from Swanscombe Peninsula, looking across the River Thames at St Clement’s Reach, Procter & Gamble make fragrant detergents at this factory. I think I remember a whiff of parfum reaching me from over the water. I suspect and hope it is harmless (?) steam issuing from the chimney, perhaps also fragrant. I used to walk along both banks of the Thames: the path is beside the grey, concrete wall just above the mud of the shore – I’d start from Grays, to the east of this and walk to Purfleet, to the west. All sorts of interesting things to see and find out about, from links to Four Weddings And A Funeral, Dracula and Queen Elizabeth and more…
Also watching, two cormorants on a listing mooring buoy. The River Thames was once clinically (chemically ?) dead and the cormorants are a sign it is recovering. It looks dirty, due to the water near the shores picking up sediment but it’s surprisingly clear a little bit further out. There was once talk of the cormorants being culled, to protect the fish: I don’t know if that happened. Nowadays, of course, the fish are more at risk from the ‘utility’ companies who “take care of water”.
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River Thames: Two Cormorants and A Factory
Taken on 16 December 2014 and uploaded 11 October 2024.
I’ve uploaded photos showing this factory before, so apologies: but it’s a favourite subject…
Taken from Swanscombe Peninsula, looking across the River Thames at St Clement’s Reach, Procter & Gamble make fragrant detergents at this factory. I think I remember a whiff of parfum reaching me from over the water. I suspect and hope it is harmless (?) steam issuing from the chimney, perhaps also fragrant. I used to walk along both banks of the Thames: the path is beside the grey, concrete wall just above the mud of the shore – I’d start from Grays, to the east of this and walk to Purfleet, to the west. All sorts of interesting things to see and find out about, from links to Four Weddings And A Funeral, Dracula and Queen Elizabeth and more…
Also watching, two cormorants on a listing mooring buoy. The River Thames was once clinically (chemically ?) dead and the cormorants are a sign it is recovering. It looks dirty, due to the water near the shores picking up sediment but it’s surprisingly clear a little bit further out. There was once talk of the cormorants being culled, to protect the fish: I don’t know if that happened. Nowadays, of course, the fish are more at risk from the ‘utility’ companies who “take care of water”.
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