Silvertown explosion
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The Silvertown explosion occurred in Silvertown in West Ham, Essex on Friday, 19 January 1917 at 6:52 p.m. The blast occurred at a munitions factory that was manufacturing explosives for Britain's Fir
The Millennium Mills following the explosion
PC Greenoff's memorial plaque in Postman's Park
Silvertown War Memorial in its new location in the middle of the Royal Wharf development, 2016
Silvertown War Memorial in its old location in 2009
Faversham, in Kent, England, has claims to be the cradle of the UK's explosives industry: it was also to become one of its main centres. The first gunpowder plant in the UK was established in the 16th
Silvertown explosion
…damage in the local area. This was not the first, last, largest, or the most deadly explosion at a munitions facility in Britain during the war; an explosion at Faversham involving 200 long tons (200 tonnes) of TNT killed 105 in 1916, and the National Shell Filling Factory, Chilwell, exploded in 1918, killing 137. The…
Stonebridge pond, water from which powered Faversham's gunpowder mills
Chart gunpowder mill
Upper mill pond
Former cooperage, now the site's visitor centre