gunpowder works
powder magazine

In 1798 Low Wood gunpowder works was established and continued production until 1935.

"This is the same explanation for how gunpowder works.

A concessionary path runs through the gunpowder works site.

The river provided the source of the power for the former gunpowder works at Pontneddfechan.

You're like the drunken smoker in the gunpowder works.'

Oare Gunpowder Works are on the edge of the village.

The site was known as the Tunbridge Gunpowder Works.

His father worked in the Okhtensk gunpowder works.

It must be true; the other factory hands have joined with the Alaminites from the gunpowder works and shut down the mills.

A gunpowder works was located in Powdermill Lane - the remains of which have been converted into a hotel.

The works closed in 1939 and the now ruined site was still known locally as the Gunpowder Works in living memory.

Figures compiled by the Gunpowder Works authorities showed that almost half a ton was unaccounted for in the nine-month period preceding the disaster.

Chilworth Gunpowder works was established in 1625 by the East India Company and finally closed in 1920.

The one piece of information everybody knew was true was that a gunpowder works in Drake owned by Baron Stogar had exploded.

Powder Mills, Leigh (Tunbridge Gunpowder Works)

The Oare Works is now a country park, known as Oare Gunpowder Works.

After gunpowder's invention, charcoal was extensively burnt in the parish for gunpowder works in Dunsfold, Cranleigh, and Sussex.

Oare Gunpowder Works, by Wayne Cocroft (Faversham Papers No 39)

Given the closeness of Waltham Abbey Gunpowder Works, it is possible the Bridges family were involved in the very lucrative secretive business of gunpowder manufacture.

The Chilworth Gunpowder works operated right through the Industrial Revolution, transported much of their wares through Guildford and its toll paid canal network.

Also included within the parish is the Faversham Angling Club Lakes and nearby Oare Gunpowder Works (now a country park).

Low Wood Gunpowder Works (also Lowwood) was a gunpowder mill founded in Furness, England, at the end of the 18th century.

Saltpetre was imported from India and sulphur from Italy, and brought to the Lake District gunpowder works by water from Liverpool to Milnthorpe.

The Oare Gunpowder Works, scene of the 1916 gunpowder explosion (see above), is now a country park and nature reserve open to the public free of charge all year round.

The word was as a spark to a powder magazine.

Before 1866, the powder magazine was in the southern part of the interior.

And your country dropped the spark into the powder magazine, you know.

In 1836 a powder magazine was built below the barracks.

"Chaos or fire in the powder magazines could do it."

A powder magazine was built here for safety reasons and because it stood on higher ground.

On 31 August a shell killed 60 men when it hit the powder magazine.

She then spent some months as a powder magazine.

It's like having two powder magazines in the same house."

A powder magazine was later built into the mound, of which little now remains (2007).

The British destroyed military supplies, and set fire to the local powder magazine.

It has had a chequered history, including use as a powder magazine.

In the powder magazine they found an old salt smoking his pipe.

Only a few terraces and two powder magazines were built.

A shell made a chance hit on the old castle, which was being used as the main powder magazine.

It was an old powder magazine, dating from the eighteenth century.

The powder magazine and kitchen with a furnace are still visible.

The man in the Yankees cap pointed to the powder magazine.

Nearby is the powder magazine, now a maintenance shed for the park.

The powder magazine was opened to the public through some holes that were cut, and stairs put in.

Final destruction took place in 1793, when lightning set the other one of the powder magazines on fire.

In the Civil War it was used as a powder magazine.

The powder magazine is thought to be the oldest existing building in the state of Illinois.

The musket was one of those they had taken from the powder magazine in the Revenge.

One Spanish ship exploded due to a shot into the powder magazine.