bonemills

Updated: May 27, 2025

But besides this, the stream itself is checked every few paces by high weirs, behind which slime and refuse accumulate and rot in thick masses. Above the bridge are tanneries, bonemills, and gasworks, from which all drains and refuse find their way into the Irk, which receives further the contents of all the neighbouring sewers and privies.

Friedrich Engels - The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844: with a Preface written in 1892