United Kingdom - Ireland
1965 - OPERATION CLEAN-UP - BY LADY MAYOR OF DARTFORD Into the river throwing twigs and dignity to the wind, steps a lady Mayor. Out of the river after three hours !Ind a lot of work, once sore than 100 barrow-bode at old iron, 1, rioks, oasts, bottled and rotten wood. Mrs. mayor Dartford, Kent was doing her bit to rid the town of e alur oast upon it 100 yearn ago by an anonymous poet, It was ANON, who wrote of Dartford Dirty t own, dirty people, They bury their dead beneath their steeple, The description had stuck, The state of tee River Darent, chink runs through Dartford, did nothing to help, The oounoil were not really to blame because they have no power to spend rate-peyers money on oleaning up the river, So MRS SMITH made a public appeal for help in doing the Job, leaterday she and 12 scouts, working for their Stout award, cleaned up a 200-yard stretch of the river, PHOTO SHOWS : MRS.SMITH, Mayor of Dartford, assisted by the soouts, taokles the Job of cleaning up the river yesterday
