Advancing Technology The advent of the new century brought a steady march in advances in technology. The generation of electricity was by then understood and the Sevenoaks Electricity Supply Company had successfully built its shareholding and opened their ‘Electricity Works’ at Sundridge in 1915. Men were employed and trained as cable jointers and the first main ...
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Though no longer supplying electricity from this generating hall, the distinctive building still exists, being used as a store, and now held under a grade II listing option. The site is still involved with electricity, being the U.K. Power Networks training centre at Dunbrik, Sundridge
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This map from the late 1920s shows the Generating Hall marked ‘G H‘ with its associated water cooling tanks standing adjacent to the ‘West Kent Steam Laundry’ opposite what was at that time ‘The Lamb Inn’ just past Sundridge crossroads.
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