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 167,669 pages of information and 247,074 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.

Graveney Boat

From Graces Guide
1953. Embankment faced with precast blocks.

A village close to Faversham in Kent

Location of the "Graveney Boat", a rare example of an Anglo-Saxon clinker-built boat, more than 1,000 years old - the only vessel of her kind to have survived. Discovered in 1970 during widening and deepening of Hammond's Drain on Graveney Marshes. The boat, largely intact, was originally 40ft long and 10ft wide.

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