Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,260 pages of information and 244,501 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Gillingham Portland Cement Co

From Graces Guide

of Westminster Chambers, London SW (1875)[1]

1882 Installation of compound steam engine at the company's works at Chatham[2]

c.1889 May have been the company who set up the Quarry Works, Frindsbury

1893 The Company built a new works on the Thames rather than develop Quarry Works, owing to the difficulties of chalk supply.

1895 Sold the Quarry Works.

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Sources of Information

  1. Post Office Directory
  2. The Engineer 1884