Dartford and Crewe

Date:
1889-1985
Reference:
WF/M/I/ND/06/03
Part of:
Wellcome Foundation Ltd
  • Archives and manuscripts

About this work

Description

Negatives and prints of the Wellcome Chemical Works (WCW) and attendant buildings, Dartford and of the Wellcome offices and production site based at Crewe Hall.

Images arranged into the following sections:

Crewe (7 images) - Crew Hall (x4)
- Crewe site (aerial)
- Liquid Production (Crewe)
- Sterile Aerosol Production

Dartford - Aerial (3 images)
- [Taken pre-1980] (x3)

Dartford - Exteriors (6 images)
- Phoenix Paper Mills, Dartford, Kent, 1855
- Phoenix Paper Mills, Dartford, Kent (advertising T. H. Saunders)
- Burroughs Wellcome & Co, Dartford, c1910
- Tablet Building, Dartford 1977 (x3)

Dartford - Interiors (45 images)
Including following titled images:
- 'U' type tabletting machine designed and made at Dartford, c.1900
- Part of Alkaloid Extraction House, Bldg 102 with merz percolator for boiling solvent, 1928
- Corner of Alkaloid Extraction House, Bldg 102, 1928
- Corner of Pharmaceutical House, Bldg 118, 1928
- Centrifuge
- CMD, Bldg 117, 197
- Insulin Production
- Ken Whiteley, CMD, Bldg 159, 1960s
- Bldg 11, Pump House by Malt Tower
- Dartford Packaging
- Emetine Bldg, 1968
- BBC Film crew at Dartfrord re AIDS test kit (see Foundation News, November 1985

Dartford - Materia Medica Farm (16 images)
Including following titled images:
- Photograph of Digitalis plant
- Photograph of Digitalis leaf
- 'Digitalis Purpurea: Selected fresh green leaves used for the preparation of 'Tabloid' Digitalis Leaf'
- Gathering Hyoscyamus
- Artemisia
- Tom Waterman: crushing belladonna, 1921 (x2)
- Gathering Digitalis
- Loading Digitalis

Dartford - Club, Staff, Sport (20 images)
Including following titled images:
- S.M. Burroughs Memorial Service, 1895
- Veterans' race, with Mr Sudlow, 1905
- Presentation of Sudlow Medals, 1909
- Dartford Firemen

Dartford - Events, Town (8 images)
- Queens Award, Aug 1970 (x4)
- Unidentified men inspecting machinery
- Display on the Wellcome Club & Institute
- Cutting on the Wellcome Club & Institute
- Cutting on the Livingstone Hospital

Dartford - Deeds etc (6 images)
- Acacia Hall deeds - Acacia Hall deeds, showing plan of site - Dartford deeds (x2) - 'Objects of the Wellcome Club & Institute' - Letter to Burroughs Wellcome & Co re purchase of Phoenix Mills, Dartford, 1889

Publication/Creation

1889-1985

Physical description

111 images

Where to find it

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