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Thames Ammunition Company works, see also image EAW048379 for the works while flooded in 1953.
http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Hugh_Gorham_Ticehurst
http://sussexhistoryforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=2754.0
Adjacent to these works was the Trench Warfare Filing factory, erected in 1915 to make munitions for 2 inch and 6 inch mortars and managed by Thames Ammunition Co. http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Trench_Warfare_Filling_Factories
After the end of WW1, the factory was used for decommissioning munitions. A tragic consequence was that on the 19th February 1924, while dismantling stocks of Verey light cartridges, 11 young women and a male forman were killed in an explosion and fire. Questions were subsequently asked in Parliament as to why W V Gilbert Ltd, who was undertaking the work, did not comply with the Explosives Act, which would have limited the personnel within a building to a maximum of 3?
http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1924/feb/20/munition-factory-explosion-slades-green#S5CV0169P0_19240220_HOC_302
http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1924/feb/21/munition-factory-explosion-slades-green#S5CV0169P0_19240221_HOC_283
http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/written_answers/1924/feb/25/munition-factory-explosion-slade-green#S5CV0170P0_19240225_CWA_217
http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1924/mar/06/ammunition-breaking-down-factories#S5CV0170P0_19240306_HOC_91
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