Clinker Beach: Marmite, marmalade and clinker.
A typical view of Tilbury's Clinker Beach...
So far as I know 'Clinker Beach' is named for the quantities of clinker dumped there and in the landfill site the 'beach' is part of...clinker being what is left over from burnt coal or from a furnace. Clinker Beach is adjacent to a (now former and demolished power station). As well as the clinker, the site contains domestic rubbish, and copious amounts of glass and pottery, common among which are Marmite bottles, marmalade jars (Keiller's, Cooper's) and other unidentifiable fragments of glass, alongside 'native' pebbles and shingle...
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Clinker Beach: Marmite, marmalade and clinker.
A typical view of Tilbury's Clinker Beach...
So far as I know 'Clinker Beach' is named for the quantities of clinker dumped there and in the landfill site the 'beach' is part of...clinker being what is left over from burnt coal or from a furnace. Clinker Beach is adjacent to a (now former and demolished power station). As well as the clinker, the site contains domestic rubbish, and copious amounts of glass and pottery, common among which are Marmite bottles, marmalade jars (Keiller's, Cooper's) and other unidentifiable fragments of glass, alongside 'native' pebbles and shingle...
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