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BURY ST.EDMUNDS,
Being on the railway line
from Suffolk to Cambridge allowed the manure merchants, Robert and Walton
Burrell, to market fertiliser to the predominantly agricultural area around
Bury St.Edmunds. The proximity of coprolite works in
both counties would have been a factor, they buying in the phosphatic nodules
for their conversion using sulphuric acid to superphosphate. They were
advertising in 1892 as Artificial Manure Manufacturers from their Chemical
works in Westley, Bury St.Edmunds.
(Kelly’s Directory 1892)