Dartford Urban District

It replaced the Dartford Local Board, and had fifteen councillor seats.

Another prominent member was James Sharp, owner of James Sharp and Son, builders and timber merchants, in Hythe Street, Dartford, and the nearby Baltic Saw Mills[3] DUDC were instrumental in the establishment of Dartford’s Central Park, Museum and Library.

[4][5] They built a power station in Priory Road for the town in 1901,[6] and on 14 February 1906 opened the Dartford Council Light Railways tram system,[7] which operated until November 1935 when trams were replaced by a fleet of trolleybuses.

[8] The council maintained the local sewage works[9] and marketed dried sludge from it as agricultural fertiliser.

[10] The authority was perhaps the first United Kingdom council to lend its support to the establishment of specialist state-run clinics for the treatment of babies and children under five to combat the then high infant mortality rate in Britain.