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Collapse WCC:Acc0152 - Westminster City Council, Cleansing Department reports and photographs, including road sweeping and washing, refuse collection, personnel, vehicles, Gatliff Road Central Depot and other depots, Grosvenor Dock, refuse barges and tugs, landfill sites, salvage and other activities during World War Two, dustmen's strikes and anti-litter campaignsWCC:Acc0152 - Westminster City Council, Cleansing Department reports and photographs, including road sweeping and washing, refuse collection, personnel, vehicles, Gatliff Road Central Depot and other depots, Grosvenor Dock, refuse barges and tugs, landfill sites, salvage and other activities during World War Two, dustmen's strikes and anti-litter campaigns
Expand 1 - Reports and correspondence1 - Reports and correspondence
Expand 2 - Metal plaques2 - Metal plaques
Expand 3 - Newspaper, magazine articles and cartoons3 - Newspaper, magazine articles and cartoons
Expand 4 - Brochures and blueprints from vehicle manufacturers and other plans4 - Brochures and blueprints from vehicle manufacturers and other plans
Collapse 5 - Photographs5 - Photographs
Expand 1 - Black and white and colour photographs of road sweeping and washing, including dealing with litter and snow1 - Black and white and colour photographs of road sweeping and washing, including dealing with litter and snow
Expand 2 - Black and white and colour photographs of refuse collection, including kitchen waste and paper salvage2 - Black and white and colour photographs of refuse collection, including kitchen waste and paper salvage
Expand 3 - Black and white and colour photographs of Westminster City Council refuse vehicles3 - Black and white and colour photographs of Westminster City Council refuse vehicles
Expand 4 - Black and white photographs of non-Westminster City Council refuse vehicles, including international examples4 - Black and white photographs of non-Westminster City Council refuse vehicles, including international examples
Expand 5 - Black and white photographs of other examples of Westminster City Council vehicles5 - Black and white photographs of other examples of Westminster City Council vehicles
Expand 6 - Black and white photographs of the Central Depot, Gatliff Road6 - Black and white photographs of the Central Depot, Gatliff Road
Collapse 7 - Black and white and colour photographs of the Grosvenor Dock, waste disposal barges and landfill sites in Essex and other locations7 - Black and white and colour photographs of the Grosvenor Dock, waste disposal barges and landfill sites in Essex and other locations
Expand 1 - Album of black and white photographs taken by H Ardern, Director of Public Cleansing, illustrating the waste disposal process from the refuse barges leaving the Grosvenor Dock to the Land Reclamation Company's dump at Pitsea, Essex1 - Album of black and white photographs taken by H Ardern, Director of Public Cleansing, illustrating the waste disposal process from the refuse barges leaving the Grosvenor Dock to the Land Reclamation Company's dump at Pitsea, Essex
2 - Black and white photograph of the Thames River Tug Tudorose moored at the Land Reclamation Cop Ltd pontoon adjacent to Chelsea Bridge and the entrance to the Grosvenor Dock
3 - Black and white photographs of the engine room of the Thames River Tug Tudorose and at work on the river
4 - Black and white photographs of the loading of refuse into barges at the Grosvenor Dock and the refuse being compressed
5 - Black and white photographs of a barge being covered with a wooden hatch and being towed out of the Grosvenor Dock into the River Thames prior to being transported to Pitsea, Essex
Expand 6 - Black and white photographs of tugs towing refuse barges on the River Thames with the Houses of Parliament in the background on their way to land reclamation sites in Essex6 - Black and white photographs of tugs towing refuse barges on the River Thames with the Houses of Parliament in the background on their way to land reclamation sites in Essex
7 - Black and white photographs of employees (includes a black employee) putting on life jackets and covering a refuse barge with a tarpaulin at the Grosvenor Dock
8 - Colour photographs of refuse barges moored at the Grosvenor Dock and being towed along the River Thames
9 - Black and white photographs of landfill site at Pitsea Essex
Expand 10 - Black and white photographs of a crane unloading rubbish from a railway waggon at a dump at Pitsea, Essex10 - Black and white photographs of a crane unloading rubbish from a railway waggon at a dump at Pitsea, Essex
11 - Black and white photograph of a barge being unloaded by a crane at the dump at Pitsea, Essex
12 - Black and white photograph of a burning refuse tip at Hornchurch, Essex
13 - Black and white photograph of barges of refuse being unloaded at a tip at Hornchurch, Essex
14 - Album of black and white photographs of the refuse dumps of H Covington & Sons and R W Cunis at Wennington, Essex
15 - Black and white photographs of tips at Cole Green, Blackbridge, Hertfordshire, Sundon Sidings, Harlington, Bedfordshire and Yeading, Middlesex. With a lsist of tip sites used by the various London Boroughs
16 - Black and white photographs of a landfill site in Croydon
17 - Black and white photographs of a landfill site at Ivor Heath, Seven Hills Road, Denham
18 - Black and white photographs of unidentied landfill sites
Collapse 19 - Album of black and white photographs of refuse being loaded onto barges and being transported along the Grand Union Canal by Paddington Borough Council and St Marylebone Borough Council and tipped at Northolt Shoot19 - Album of black and white photographs of refuse being loaded onto barges and being transported along the Grand Union Canal by Paddington Borough Council and St Marylebone Borough Council and tipped at Northolt Shoot
20 - Black and white photographs of refuse compression by paper process used by St Marylebone Borough Council
21 - Black and white photograph of a horse drawn refuse transporter at a tip site unloading a barge from North Wharf Road
22 - Black and white photographs of a refuse handling plant in the London Borough of Beckenham
Expand 23 - Black and white photographs of a refuse handling plant in the London Borough of Ealing23 - Black and white photographs of a refuse handling plant in the London Borough of Ealing
24 - Black and white photopostacrds of tips and landfill sites used by the City of Bradford
25 - Black and white photographs of tip sites used by the City of Bradford
26 - Black and white photographs of a refuse handling plant in the City of Leeds
27 - Black and white photographs of a refuse handling plany in Paisley
28 - Black and white negatives of photographs of the Grosvenor Dock, refuse barges and Tudorose Tug on the River Thames, landfill sites at Pitsea, Essex
Expand 8 - Black and white photographs of other Westminster City Council Depots8 - Black and white photographs of other Westminster City Council Depots
Expand 9 - Black and white photographs of special campaigns9 - Black and white photographs of special campaigns
Expand 10 - Black and white photographs of special activities during World War Two, 1939-1945, including gas decontamination and paper salvage10 - Black and white photographs of special activities during World War Two, 1939-1945, including gas decontamination and paper salvage
Expand 11 - Black and white and colour photographs of special events11 - Black and white and colour photographs of special events
Expand 12 - Black and white and colour photographs of cleansing personnel12 - Black and white and colour photographs of cleansing personnel
13 - Copy of the letter code classification scheme used by the Cleansing Department to sort photographs
Expand 6 - Metropolitan Boroughs Organisation and Housing Committee6 - Metropolitan Boroughs Organisation and Housing Committee
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