It seems that the internet has reduced what was once general knowledge, to the realm of folklore.

So the question is "Whatever happened top Barking Creek?".

When I was growing up, it was general knowledge among people from The East End of London that Barking Creek was an open sewer.

Try looking that up on the internet and it is nowhere to be found.

The Barrier where The River Roding meets the Thames is mentioned.
Also that Barking Creek flowed into The River Roding there. But Barking creek does not named on Google Maps.

Beckton Sewage treatment works was supposedly built in 1868 but raw sewage was being discharged into The Thames well into the 1870s.

So where and when did the knowledge disappear?