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The Stowmarket Guncotton Company was an explosives company established in the 19th century by Messrs Prentice that operated a gun-cotton factory in Stowmarket...

composed of nitrolignose derived from nitrated wood grains, impregnated with saltpetre or barium nitrate. In 1882 the Explosive Company of Stowmarket introduced...

of the government monopoly on explosives manufacture and closed the Volkmann factory in 1875.: 141–144  In 1882, the Explosives Company at Stowmarket...

propellant in firearms and for use as a low-order explosive in mining. Even before the explosion at Stowmarket some of the earlier factories that had produced it...

guncotton. After one of the Austrian factories blew up in 1862, Thomas Prentice & Company began manufacturing guncotton in Stowmarket in 1863; and British...

Ipswich and Stowmarket Navigation Act 1790 (30 Geo. 3. c. 57) was obtained to enable the river to be improved from Ipswich to Stowmarket. This was achieved...

Pembrey in 1882 by the New Explosive Company of Stowmarket; it was bought by their competitors, Nobel's Explosives Company, in 1886 / 1887 and production...

Stowmarket railway station is a stop on the Great Eastern Main Line (GEML) in the East of England, serving the market town of Stowmarket, Suffolk. The...

1872/Editor's Scientific Record/Explosion of Gun-Cotton at Stowmarket Gun Cotton at The Periodic Table of Videos (University of Nottingham) Nitrocellulose Paper...

founded in December 1926 from the merger of four companies: Brunner Mond, Nobel Explosives, the United Alkali Company, and British Dyestuffs Corporation. It...

of powder and shells exploded, killing 300 and causing over $720,000 in property damage. August 11, 1871: Stowmarket Guncotton Explosion. Stowmarket,...

and Choicelee Road (Berwick) Act 1825 (6 Geo. 4. c. xvi) Ipswich and Stowmarket Navigation Act 1790 (30 Geo. 3. c. 57) Thames Haven, Dock and Railway...

Alamy. "Stock Photo – Tunbridge Wells gave Freedom of the Borough to 579 Field Squadron Explosive Ordnance Disposal Volunteers on Sat 18 Oct 2008". Alamy...

for a decade until September 1983. The programme gave people brief control of transmission and was a platform for the public to talk about its own issues...

attacked the capital. The raid struck a number of sites including Liverpool Street. Seven tons of explosives were dropped on the capital, killing 162 people...

destroyed in the Soham rail disaster, when a munitions train carrying high explosive bombs caught fire and blew up, killing two and damaging over seven hundred...

Adults with Learning and Physical Difficulties through the Target Club in Stowmarket, Suffolk. Mrs Hilary Eleanor Halliday, Public Relations Officer, Newry...

Prohibition of Traffic) Order (SI 2010/222) The A14 Trunk Road (Junction 50 Cedars Interchange, Stowmarket, Suffolk) (Temporary Prohibition of Traffic) Order...

Amendment Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/1201) A14 Trunk Road (Haughley New Street to Stowmarket Improvement and Detrunking) Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/1250) Constitutional...