Two other single men's tent camps were established nearby Old Tradesmen's Camp (1923 27) and No 1 Labourers Camp (1924 27).
The Huguenot refugees had arrived in the 1680s and established themselves as tradesmen and artisans, particularly in the silk trade; and the French Church was their first place of worship.
After completing their sentences, most found work as labourers or tradesmen, but the more-enterprising acquired land, established businesses, or, when suitably qualified, entered the professions.
This was usually the widow of a tradesman, who was permitted to continue her husband's business after his death, and often established in the rights and privileges of his trade guild or company.
But cartographers were not the only ones whose intrepid transnational movements helped to "forge this swarming continent of microscopic kingdoms into a single nation". At the dawn of the modern era, about half a million provincial tradesmen and -women regularly trekked across the country for weeks, often on foot, to hawk their wares in more established centers of commerce.
The Judd School was established in 1888, but the need for a secondary school to supplement Sir Andrew Judd's Grammar School (now known as the famous Public School: Tonbridge School) was acknowledged as early as 1870, after it was revealed that only one in 200 of its students was the son of a Tonbridge tradesman.
The Charter allowed taxes to be made on transactions made in the borough by tradesmen and permitted the local burgesses to establish a guild that would regulate trade in the borough.
Merchants and tradesmen found food and lodging near the city gates and the Forum.
Costumed tradesmen and craftsmen demonstrate decoy carving, blacksmithing, weaving and many more traditional skills.
Labor unions deployed teachers, tradesmen and firefighters to make phone calls.
