The River Thames |
The River Thames now is definitely not like it use to be. Today ducks and swans swim, even humans swim. Back then you would be swimming all right, swimming in human waste. The River Thames was treated like a sewer in the 1500's. Most ladies just hitched their skirts and leaned over the side of the Thames to use the river as a toilet. Before it was used as a toilet there were fishes, frogs, water snakes, birds, and other aquatic species swimming in the Thames. It is unfortunate that the River Thames was treated so badly. After all, there was no Sir John Harrington or Thomas Crapper back then. We have them to thank for the first flushing toilet. Till this day fish still die because of the old bacteria from the sewer like river.