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    If only we had the name of the factory, but it seems few have this information...

    "At the junction of Shakespeare Road and Folkestone Road, backing onto Churchill Road, was a large mansion which, until its demolition in the 1970s, housed a factory making high-class shirts.

    "The first house next Dover, now called Maxton House, but originally Churchill House, is a considerable mansion, and it has some literary associations. Its first occupier, Mr. Edward Foss, about the year 1865, rendered assistance to Mr. John Bruce in compiling the interesting memoir of the poet William Cooper, which appeared in Messrs. Bell and Daldy's Aldine Edition. The next occupant was Major W. Augustus Munn, F.R.H.S., who, for 35 years, was a co-worker with Dr. Edward Bevan in studying the habits of the honey-bee; and having survived Dr. Bevan, and acquired the copyright of his standard book on that subject*, Major Munn, in the year 1870, when residing at Maxton, published an enlarged and illustrated edition** of that work, which is still regarded as a standard book of reference on that fascinating subject." (JBJ 1907)

    * The Honey-Bee; Its Natural History, Physiology and Management, by Edward Bevan, M.D, published in London by Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1827

    ** Revised edition, by W"

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