Powder mill, Waltham Abbey Size:XS: 30 x 20cm 23rd January 1968

23rd January 1968

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others are riding

Croydon Palace used to be the summer residence of the Archbishop of Canterbury

and the following year won the American Grand Prize in a Fiat

Powder mill, Waltham Abbey Size:XS: 30 x 20cm 23rd January 1968Sectional elevation for the water driven powder mill at Waltham Abbey, Essex, 1: 24 scale. From Smeaton volume 2, fol. 38v. Powder mills were used in the manufacture of blackpowder, a type of gunpowder. Smeaton was contracted in 1767 by the mill's owner, Bouchier Walton, to design improved mills. The site was purchased by the Crown in 1787 to become one of three Royal Gunpowder Mills in the UK. Original: ink on paper. 1771