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 173,091 pages of information and 249,766 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.

Margate Steam Packet Co

From Graces Guide

Presumably otherwise known as the "Old Margate Company"

1826 THE Proprietors of the MARGATE STEAM PACKET COMPANY having again most liberally offered the gratuitous use of the Venus, for an Excursion, THURSDAY , the 29th of June[1]

1828 At the start of the season, the General Navigation Steam Company, and the Margate Steam Company were the sturdy belligerents (in the provision of services to Margate).[2]

1830 the company's vessels engaged in services below London Bridge to Margate, Sheerness, Gravesend, &c were:[3]

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Sources of Information

  1. Morning Herald (London) 09 June 1826
  2. Morning Post 30 August 1828
  3. The Engineer 1900/09/28