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The National Shell Filling Factory, Chilwell, was a World War I United Kingdom Government-owned explosives filling factory. Its formal title was National Filling Factory No. 6. It was located near Chilwell, at that time a village, in Nottinghamshire on the main road from Nottingham to Ashby de la Zouch.
It commemorates the workers who died in accidents at National Shell Filling Factory, Chilwell during the First World War, particularly the large explosion on 1 July 1918. The large free-standing pyramidal monument, enclosed by chains carried on shell casings, was unveiled in 1919 and became a Grade II listed building in 1987.
On 1 July 1918, the National Shell Filling Factory No 6 (Chilwell, near Nottingham, England) was partly destroyed when 8 tons of TNT exploded in the dry mix part of the factory. Approximately 140 workers – mainly young women, known as the 'Chilwell Canaries' because contact with picric acid turned their skin yellow – were killed, though the ...
National Filling Factory No. 21 Whitmore Park, Coventry: Feb 1917 Components (fuses, Gaines) for 18 pdr shells National Filling Factory no 10 was renumbered 21 after a fault in the production system had been fixed, as front line troops had learned to avoid munitions from NFF 10 National Filling Factory No. 22 Gainsborough, Lincolnshire: Feb 1918
An explosion at Faversham involving 200 tons of TNT killed 105 in 1916. The National Shell Filling Factory, Chilwell exploded in 1918, killing 137. The Silvertown explosion occurred in Silvertown (now part of the London Borough of Newham, in Greater London) killing 73 and injuring 400 on Friday, 19 January 1917 at 6.52 pm.
July 1, 1918 National Shell Filling Factory, Chilwell. 134 workers were killed and 250 injured when eight tons of TNT detonated at a munitions factory at the village of Chilwell, now a suburb of Nottingham, UK. October 4, 1918: T. A. Gillespie Company Shell Loading Plant explosion.
Explosions at British munitions factories during World War I included the 1916 Barnbow explosion in which 35 women died, the 1917 Silvertown explosion, in which 73 people were killed and over 400 injured, and a 1918 explosion at the National Shell Filling Factory, Chilwell, which killed over 130 workers.
National Shell Filling Factory, Chilwell; T. T. A. Gillespie Company Shell Loading Plant explosion This page was last edited on 15 February 2022, at 17:23 (UTC). ...