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Monument details
| HER Number: | TR 06 SW 1469 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Site of Gunpowder Factory, Eley Brothers Ltd, Harty Ferry |
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Summary
A small gunpowder works was set up by Eley Brothers on this site near Harty Ferry, with production beginning at the end of the 19th century. After the Fiirst World War. it was amalgamated with two neighbouring works under the holding Company Explosives Trading Ltd (later part of ICI). The works closed shortly afterwards and no visible features remain.
| Grid Reference: | TR 00876 64974 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR06SW |
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| Parish: | OARE, SWALE, KENT |
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Monument Types
- GUNPOWDER WORKS (Demolished, Post Medieval to Modern - 1896 AD? to 1934 AD? (at some time))
Full description
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Marked on 3rd ed OS (1)
A small gunpowder works and one of three sites along the Swale (See also TQ 96 NE 1039 & TQ 96 NE 9). It is not clear when production started, probably around the turn of the 20th century, or what work was carried out. After the First World War the site, along with the ELC and CPC neighbouring works were brought together under the holding company Explosives Trades Ltd (later part of ICI). The site closed shortly afterwards. No visible features of the site remain.(1)
<1> Ordnance Survey, 1905-10, Ordnance Survey 1:2500 3rd edition: 1901-1912 (Map). SWX11833.
<2> Percival, Arthur, 1985, The Great Explosion at Faversham 2 April 1916 (Article in serial). SKE12717.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Map: Ordnance Survey. 1905-10. Ordnance Survey 1:2500 3rd edition: 1901-1912. 1:2500. |
| <2> | Article in serial: Percival, Arthur. 1985. The Great Explosion at Faversham 2 April 1916. C p425 -463. |
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