Portsmouth Naval Basin Reconstruction Begins
Edmund Dummer's dockyard improvement programme included basin works later incorporated into the Block Mills site. The process reduced dependence on traditional individually shaped components.
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Edmund Dummer Biography and Timeline
Follow Edmund Dummer through 2 dated historical records for England.
Edmund Dummer, historical timeline
A chronological timeline drawn from matching World History Database records.
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1691–1698Years on this page
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1698
Portsmouth Basin Masonry Completed
Seventeenth century dock walls provided surviving infrastructure below later mechanised industrial buildings. It showed the value of dedicated tooling for repeatable operations.
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