Magic Lantern Slide: Oast Houses, Chesfield, Margate
This photographic slide by William Weaver Baker shows Oast Houses in Chesfield, Kent. Oast houses, which are also known as hop kilns, were used for drying hops as part of the brewing process. The hops dried by heat that passed through and escaped through the cowl in the roof.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 313/1977/398
- Collection Class
- Social and industrial history
- Material
- glasspaperphotographic emulsion
- Common Name
- Magic Lantern Slide: Oast Houses, Chesfield, Margate
- Simple Name
- slide
- Inscription Transcription
- handwritten 'OAST HOUSES CHESFIELD' on top edge; handwritten 'Oast Houses Chesfield -- Margate' on mount
- Period Classification
- Inter War (1918-1939)
- Production Country
- United Kingdom
- Production Date
- 1939
- Production Person Initials
- W. Weaver
- Production Person Surname
- Baker
