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Chilworth Gunpowder by Glenys Crocker
Chilworth Gunpowder by Glenys Crocker
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Donated by a Museum supporter.
'Damnable inventions' were the words used by William Cobbett, when he visited the Tillingbourne valley in Surrey in 1822, to describe: the industry of Chilworth - the manufacture of gunpowder.
The Chilworth gunpowder mills were established in 1626- and worked almost continuously until 192. At times, in the late seventeenth. century and again- in their final years, the works stretched along the Tillingbourne from Chilworth to Postford.
It is a book of local history against a background of events in the wider world: the East India Company, the Civil War, the Dutch Wars, Huguenot refugees, the South Sea Bubble, the slave trade, the Industrial Revolution, the French Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars and the First World War.
Published in 1984 by Surrey Archaeology Society.
28 pages with black and white photographs, drawings and maps
