{"id":435,"date":"2010-06-28T21:57:17","date_gmt":"2010-06-28T21:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/?p=435"},"modified":"2013-11-19T23:06:33","modified_gmt":"2013-11-19T23:06:33","slug":"ici-nobel-explosives-viii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/explosives\/ici-nobel-explosives-viii\/","title":{"rendered":"ICI Nobel Explosives VIII"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been, ooh, 15 minutes since I last did a report on this place \ud83d\ude42 Sadly, it now looks as if this place doesn’t have much longer…<\/p>\n

Firstly the WWII-era Cordite press houses – this part is very torn up, looks like for buried electrical cable and scrap, very smashed up but still some lovely details left, like this Tangye press:<\/p>\n

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Some more things from the Cordite houses:<\/p>\n

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Now the destruction – the Nitroglycerine hills have been attacked with a JCB, digging into the berms and demolishing the buildings inside. The unique gunpowder section has had some tracks bulldozed into it, and the edge-runner mills have been smashed up and removed:<\/p>\n

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Those edge-runner mills were unique. Even the museum at Waltham Abbey only has a replica – there were three in very good condition here, there’s now one left and it’s probably going soon.<\/p>\n

From the labs, some old colour films:<\/p>\n

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Climbing on some blast walls:
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Gunpowder press GP2:
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Yet more old pictures:
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A bunch of newer advertising boards:
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Drum test area:
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Low pressure chamber – for testing explosives at different atmospheric pressures:
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This was the back path to the labs – last week it was a very narrow track overgrown with gorse. They’re working quickly…
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The cold test building – explosives were stored at low temperatures to test how they would behave in cold climates:
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All images:<\/p>\n

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