The Powdermills
and
Grandfather Morgan
The year 1825
saw the last of the iron furnaces in Sussex, but then, came new
industry, the making of Gunpowder.
My
Great-Grandfather,
James Morgan 1823-1922
worked at the Powdermills.
One
of his jobs was to drive wagon loads of the gunpowder to Tonbridge
where it was loaded on barges and conveyed by water to magazines
at Erith
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Fishing Cottage perched on the
edge of Powdermills Lake
Place
your Mouse pointer over the photo above and wait a few
seconds to see a coloured view taken recently
from a different viewpoint near the "Powdermills
Country House Hotel"
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My Father, Percival J.White,
and his elder brother Reginald W.White, were
both born at the beginning of the 20th Century
in the Fishing Cottage seen on the left side of the
picture above |
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