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The chief industries are:—
(1) Beer, etc., brewing.
(2) Boat building and repairing.
(3) Colours and dyes.
(4) Letterpress Printing.
(5) Gravel quarrying.
(6) Market Gardening.
(7) Rubber Tyres, etc.
(8) Pewterware and Candle Machinery.
(9) Pharmaceutical Chemistry.
(10) Soaps, powders and perfumes.
(11) Sweets, confectionery
(12) Wines.
(13) Sawmills and Joinery.
(14) Fire extinguishers, etc.
(15) Electrical and Wireless equipment
Gramophones.
(16) Motor Cars.
(17) Fancy papers.
(18) Aeroplanes.
(19) Engineering works.
(20) Disinfectants.
(21) Laundries.
(22) Linoleum.
(23) Carbons, Stencils, Typewriter
bons, etc.
(24) Biscuit making.
(25) Candle making.
(26) Flour milling.
(27) Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
Machinery.
(28) Coach building and wheelwrights.
(29) Dyeing and cleaning.
(30) Pre-cast concrete works.
(31) Motor Spirit Energiser.
(32) Artificial Manure.
(33) Aluminium Solder.
(34) Soldering Flux.
(35) Scientific Instruments.
The district is rapidly developing in nearly all directions, the great majority of houses that
are going up being of the working class type, valued round about £600 to £700. Great use has
been made of the Small Dwellings Acquisition Act, and of the Housing Act, particularly the
former.
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