Souvenir of the incorporation of Dartford as a municipal borough, September 13, 1933.

  • Dartford (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1933
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Souvenir of the incorporation of Dartford as a municipal borough, September 13, 1933. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    _ Almost at the same period another important industry had its birth, so far _as England was concerned, in Dartford, the process of rolling iron being intro- duced by a Belgian named Godfrey Box, and it is significant that now, four hundred years afterwards, a new Industry is established in Dartford which hitherto has been regarded as a continental monopoly, viz.:—the manufacture of grease proof paper. Dartford comes prominently into the early history of the locomotive engine, as the home during his latter years of Richard Trevithick, who, though less known than George Stephenson, achieved world-wide distinction in the development of the high pressure steam engine for many purposes, and foreshadowed many of the uses to which it has been put. Trevithick died at Dartford in 1833, three years after the opening of the second railway—that from Liverpool to Manchester— and was buried in the East Hill Burial Ground. Another pioneer connected with Dartford was Augustus Applegarth, the inventor of the first rotary printing press and of a number of improvements in colour printing and the manufacture of bank notes. He was a resident of Dartford for many years, and died here in 1871. It has been already said that Dartford was for- many centuries a typical manor and parish, and during those centuries it was, of course, subject to manorial and
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