Explore: Refuse Destructors

to a design patented by Alfred Fryer. They were originally known as destructors. The first US incinerator was built in 1885 on Governors Island in New

Moses Nelson (1905). Notes on British Refuse Destructors: With an Introductory Comparison of British Refuse Destructors and American Garbage Furnaces. USA:

"The Destructors" is a 1954 short story written by Graham Greene, first published in Picture Post and subsequently collected in Twenty-One Stories later

stable block formed part of the wider Powderhall Refuse Disposal Works centred on the "Powderhall Destructor", a 10-cell incinerator. It was used to stable

creation of the first incineration plants, or, as they were then called, "destructors". In 1874, the first incinerator was built in Nottingham by Manlove,

opposite side, a sewage works, the Croydon Council refuse destructor, Beckenham Council's refuse destructor and electric power station as well as two brick

station and refuse destructor in the 1890s, again with sidings off the Branch Line. The 55 metres octagonal brick chimney from the refuse destructor has been

supplied fuel to the bus garage, as well as taking scrap metal from the refuse destructor works. The branch ceased steam working in April 1960, after which

Shoreditch Electric Light Station later known as the Shoreditch Borough Refuse Destructor and Generating Station on Coronet Street. The building on Coronet

vertical engines; patent water boilers; bridge and roof iron work; and refuse destructors. After World War I, the motorcar company Darracq and Company London