Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,364 pages of information and 244,505 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.
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Chart Close, Faversham, Kent, ME13 8NS.
Gunpowder (the first explosive) was being made in Faversham by 1573 using water-power to drive the machinery
The first factory (the Home Works, location of the Chart Mills) developed along Westbrook, the watercourse which feeds Faversham Creek.
By the 18th century it occupied a site about a mile long.
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