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127 years and still standing: the remarkable story of York's 'Morrisons chimney' (opens the original)
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How York's Foss Islands chimney survived for 127 years by DAVID WILSON KNOWN to present-day York residents as the ‘Morrison’s chimney’, the chimney was for many decades part of what was officially known as The Destructor. Plagued by the menace of growing heaps of household waste and their associated dangers to health in the 19th century, the City Fathers decided to incinerate York’s waste. In 1899, they commissioned the local firm of Parker & Sharp to build a towering chimney half-way down Foss
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