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Monument details

HER Number:TR 06 SW 208
Type of record:Monument
Name:Lady Dane Works, Faversham

Summary

This was the location of the British Fruit Canning Factory, which shut down in 1977. It has since been used as a furniture store. Some of the original buildings survive although now clad in sheet steel.


Grid Reference:TR 0276 6106
Map Sheet:TR06SW
Parish:FAVERSHAM, SWALE, KENT

Monument Types

  • CANNING FACTORY (Post Medieval to Modern - 1900 AD? to 2050 AD)

Full description

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The 'Lady Dane' works, the former Canning factory of British Fruit Ltd. Now used as a furniture factory several of the original buildings are still used, though re-clad in Steel Sheet. At the junction of Graveny Rd and Love Lane an office building with false timber framing and a date 1932 Stands. The factory closed in c1977.(1)


<1> N/A, Site Visit by Kent SMR map (Bibliographic reference). SKE6450.

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<1>Bibliographic reference: N/A. Site Visit by Kent SMR map.