“Chartwell, early in 1935. Making the peninsula into an island” (BRDW 1/2/158)
Photograph of a mechanical excavator and workmen digging in the drained lower lake at Chartwell [Kent], to make an island. The photograph also shows the rail tracks laid so that the spoil could be carried away.
c Jan 1935
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