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The Machine Shop (Former Slip Cover), Chatham Dockyard

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The Machine Shop (Former Slip Cover), Chatham Dockyard

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The Machine Shop (Former Slip Cover), Chatham Dockyard

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    November 19, 2023

    The Machine Shop is a former dry dock slip-cover originally built in the mid 1840s by Fox Henderson & Co. for the Woolwich Dockyard and is believed to be the earliest surviving metal-framed slipcover in existence. Following the dockyard's closure in 1865, it was deconstructed and rebuilt at Chatham where it came to be used as a machine shop

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        Location: South East England, England, United Kingdom

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