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Designers
22/05/2018
As part of the Fabric of Our Town project volunteers from the Crayford Manor House Historical Society conducted research into ...
Chartism
22/05/2018
Needs interactive leaflet adding Chartism was a working class movement which demanded sweeping changes to the political system of Britain between ...
Child Labour
22/05/2018
As part of the Fabric of Our Town project, research uncovered interviews with local children who worked at the Swaisland ...
The Fabric of our Town Learning Resources
22/05/2018
Crayford resident and former primary school teacher Peter Daniel wrote the education resource booklet ‘Fabric of our Town’. The booklet ...
Education and Learning events
22/05/2018
As part of the Fabric of Our Town project a number of varied education and learning events took place, aimed ...
Animation: The Fabric of Our Town
22/05/2018
This film, told through the eyes of a Swaisland factory worker, tells the story of the factory winning a medal ...
Block Printing Workshops
22/05/2018
The Swaisland factory was famous for its block printed designs, including the design which won the Gold Medal at the ...
Documentary film: The Fabric of Our Town
22/05/2018
Create by schoolchildren, featuring oral history interviews with ex-workers at the David Evans factory
Applegath Interactive Leaflet
22/05/2018
This pamphlet is a unique record of how the arrival of Chartism in Crayford created a terrible split amongst local people.
Designs from the Swaisland factory, 1847-1858
22/05/2018
Patterns of fabrics made in Crayford
Animation Workshops
22/05/2018
BFI animator Tom Hillenbrand delivered Crayford history animation workshops to 150 children at Crayford Library and from St Paulinus CE ...
Art Panel Workshops
22/05/2018
Over 150 young people rolled up their sleeves and used their creative skills to paint 5 murals on panels. At ...
Crayford the Opera
22/05/2018
Children from St Paulinus; St Josephs and Crayford Temple Grove primary schools, learnt about Crayford and it links with the ...
Education Sessions
22/05/2018
Teachers, Peter Daniel and Julie Hudson and staff from Bexley Local Studies and Archive Centre delivered sessions to 360 children ...
Quilt Making
22/05/2018
On the site of the MacDonalds Restaurant once stood one of the Vickers gun workshops. On the Crayford High Street side ...
Surviving reminders of the past
22/05/2018
Although the Vickers factory ceased production over twenty years ago there are still a number of surviving reminders of the Vickers presence in Crayford
Vickers Factory at Crayford 1918-1985
22/05/2018
The Interwar Years With the loss of all armament contracts the change over to the manufacture of domestic products was rapid. ...
The Trans-Atlantic Challenge
22/05/2018
John Alcock & Arthur Whitten Brown Vickers Vimy Transatlantic Flight The Vickers Vimy In 1913, Lord Northcliffe, offered £10,000 to the first ...
Hiram Maxim’s Amazing Flying Machine
22/05/2018
Hiram Maxim In 1888, Hiram Maxim transferred his machine gun making business from his cramped London works to a site on ...
From Village to Industrial Town
22/05/2018
Crayford’s Factories & Industrial History Village Crayford During the nineteenth century Crayford was a rural village. Even in 1901 the population still ...
Oral History: Ron Allen
22/05/2018
Oral History: Anthony Keable
22/05/2018
Vickers Machine Gun & Maxim Gun History
22/05/2018
The firm of Vickers originated in Sheffield in the 18th. Century and until 1888 they were concerned with steel production ...
The Crayford Clock Tower
22/05/2018
A photo gallery
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Robert Sutton
on
David Evans – The Last of the London Fabric Printers.
11/07/2026
My Grandad George Hammond worked there for many years until he retired, I believe he was a foreman in the...
Peter Rawlings
on
Vickers Factory at Crayford 1918-1985
15/05/2026
My Great Grandmother Mildred Swift worked in the bayonet shop in WW1
Miss Rebecca Haydock
on
Animation: The Fabric of Our Town
18/02/2026
Thomas Schindler is also my great-great-grandfather!
Frances Healy
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Vickers Factory at Crayford 1918-1985
20/11/2025
My Dad, Joe Chadwick, worked at Vickers in the 1940's and 50's. We migrated to Australia from Dartford in 1965....
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Robert Sutton on David Evans – The Last of the London Fabric Printers.
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