Kent's Industrial Heritage by James Preston
Kent is thought of as the 'Garden of England' and has been described as a county of 'hops, apples and cherries'. This may be true of a large part of the county, particularly after the Weald lost its important broadcloth and iron industries, but north Kent bordering the Thames and Medway became in the nineteenth century the most highly industrialised area of south-east England outside London.Kent, strategically located on the approach to London, had a long association with the armaments industries. It cast iron cannon from Tudor times to the early eighteenth century, provided the navy with warships from private and royal dockyards, and was an important manufacturer of gunpowder and explosives. It became a major supplier of paper to London stationers, and a source of millions of bricks and millions of tons of lime, cement, stone and sand for nineteenth-century developments in London and overseas. To fill a demand created by these industries for machinery, an engineering sector developed, which was at times at the cutting edge of technology. Barge building developed to exploit cheap water carriage of the county's products. Diversified farming provided the raw materials for a variety of agriculturally related activities including milling, tanning, malting and brewing.This book outlines the important place Kent industry held in the economy of southern England, and illustrates what remains extant in what is now essentially a post-industrial era.
James Preston has lectured in Higher, Further and Adult Education on History, Industrial Archaeology and Industrial Architecture. He is the author of 'Kent's Industrial Heritage' and 'Malting and Malthouses in Kent' for Amberley and has contributed chapters and articles to various publications on Kent history. He is the Industrial Officer for the C.K.A. and chairman of the K.A.S. Industry Committee.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781445662169 |
| ISBN 10 | 1445662167 |
| Title | Kent's Industrial Heritage |
| Author | James Preston |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Amberley Publishing |
| Year published | 2016-11-15 |
| Number of pages | 96 |
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