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Thread #110248 Message #2311432
Posted By: Liz the Squeak
09-Apr-08 - 04:50 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: The Belle of Barking Creek (Paddy Roberts
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The Belle of Barking Creek.
To be accurate, Barking Creek is a small river that forms a boundary of the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, flowing into the Thames via the River Roding.
To be 'up Barking Creek' was to be in trouble, akin to 'shit creek' probably from the fertiliser works built there in the late 1870's.
It still smells pretty foul when the tide is out.
LTS