2026-09-16
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My name is Tim Burrows.
I'm the author of The Rubbish Scopes of Essex, Why Our Buried Trash is Back to Haunt Us,
which was published by The Long Read in 2023 and was an edited
extract of a chapter of my book, The Invention of Essex.
The piece is about how parts of Essex were used as dumping grounds for London,
in some cases illegal dumping grounds for London's waste,
and what that might have said about the county itself and its relationship with the establishment.
It was actually a story that was quite a long time coming for me.
And it was first brought to my attention by my father-in-law, who was a keen angler.
He used to tell me about some clay pits,
which filled with water and became a sort of beautiful area of Essex where he used to fish.