By Mike Chapman
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No record has been found relating to street cleaning, but it is likely from comparison with other areas that, until the formation of the District Councils, there was no system of cleaning other than the clearance of obstacles to the free flow of traffic. There is record of street watering being carried out in Twerton by Bath District Council in 1906, but early photographs show that although the macadamised surface of the High Street was scraped to remove surface mud and dust (together with horse and cattle droppings), this was only carried out between long intervals. It was not until the introduction of tar-spraying and tarmac after WWI that Twerton would have benefited from mechanised street sweeping.
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