08-12-18, 04:27 PM
(08-12-18, 04:20 PM)tommyardin link Wrote: LBC bricks used to be made from material dredged from the Thames and were manufactured aroundBattersea area.
On cutting a brick with a hammer and bolster you could smell sewage gasses emanating from the cut surfaces. Hence the expression 'Shite Bricks'
Thankfully Old Father Thames is a lot cleaner now than he was years ago, but the bricks still sometime have that smell to them, I guess with hundreds of years of raw sewerage being pumped into it the sedimentary bottom is still contaminated with the stuff.
Don't swim in the Thames LOLĀ :eek :thumbdown
With the tide coming in and going out I would not mind betting each turd travelled up and down the river like a river bus 20 or 30 times before coming to rest on the bottom LOL