board. The Thames River
Police’s rowing boats based
at Wapping were replaced
with steam launches, there
was a new plan for dumping
sewage at sea, rather than
releasing it downriver, and
treatment works on shore.
A few years later, on the
northern side of the Thames
from here, the Royal Pavilion
Pleasure Gardens (now the
site of the Royal Victoria
Gardens) was the starting
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