Alfred Reader's cricket and hockey ball factory, Teston
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Alfred Reader's cricket and hockey ball factory, Teston
Image: © pam fray Taken: 19 Jul 2011
Thomas Martin first made cricket balls in a workshop above Teston post office. The business was taken over by Alfred Reader who opened the factory in the 1820s that produced 1,400 balls per week. The workers of the Reader factory formed one of the smallest trade unions in the country - The Teston Independent Society of Cricket Ball Makers. The building has now been converted into private housing.
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Image Location
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51.255408
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0.43939