Kentish Gazette..
Folded broadsheet. Title decorated with vignettes of royal arms and Kent and Canterbury arms, etc. Red newspaper stamp at top. Newspapers and other periodicals are always offered subject to the usual wear and tear associated with ephemeral items. Major condition issues will be described but minor tears, creases and folds are not mentioned unless it affects legibility.
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Details
GAS LIGHTING FOR CANTERBURY
Publisher
Kentish Gazette, Charles Petman Rouse, George Kirkby and James Lawrence.,
Place
Canterbury
Date
1819
Synopsis
No. 5317 friday, june 4, 1819.
Item Description
BROADSHEET NEWSPAPER. 14.75 x 19.75 inches. [4] pp.
Notes
Original issue of this newspaper containing a fascinating variety of notices and advertisements on the front page; the inside and back pages are a mixture of national and Kentish news and Hop Intelligence and a Corn Exchange section which supplies corn and other commodity prices. 'The Cachemire Goats,' have arrived in Marseille after considerable losses sustained while the flock was being transported across the desert and the Mediterranean. The Navy and Ordnance estimates were debated in the Commons. In Kent it was proposed to light Canterbury by gas and to lay down water supply pipes, 'with plugs in case of fire' and provision for watering the streets in summer. The Eclipse steam packet arrived at Margate, for the first time, with four hundred passengers.
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