going from memory of research the train line that runs over Townsend Avenue Liverpool was bombed and a train carrying munitions was hit Steve ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marion Charlesworth" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2012 11:24 AM Subject: Re: [ENG-LIV] Munitions factory > Could it have been a tram-line rather than a rail-line? I seem to recall > that part of Liverpool did have trams. > Afraid I can't help with the munitions question, sorry. > > Marion, Sussex > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Martin Briscoe > Sent: 23 September 2012 11:14 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [ENG-LIV] Munitions factory > > It does not seem to be listed in Wayne Cocroft's "Dangerous Energy" which > is > probably the most comprehensive book on explosive and munitions > manufacture. > > Some accidents did seem to get reported in the local or national press. > If > you have an idea of the date and there were fatalities then you could try > the CWGC database. > > In Merseyside there is listed: > > Aintree, Bland Park Farm, Sefton NFF No. 2, SJ 36 98 - Great War explosive > factor and filling factory Kirkby, ROF FF No. 7, SJ 432 988 - WWII 1940 - > 1945 explosives factory - filling factory Liverpool, Litherland, > Brotherton > & Co, H M Factory, SJ 53 97 - Great War > 1913 - 1918 explosives factory - TNT. picric acid(?) Liverpool, NFF No. > 2a, > SJ 35 98, Great War explosives factory - filling factory Port Sunlight, > Lever Brothers, SJ 34 84, Great War, soap factory - glycerine Sutton Oak, > St > Helens, UK Chemical Products Company, H M Factory, SJ 53 93 - Great War > explosives factory - picric acid, phenol, arsenic compounds > > There could be others apart from these, often the post-war newspapers had > adverts for the disposal of equipment at government sites like these. > > There is a remote possibility that a train running over a severed arm > could > be in railway accident records. > > > Martin Briscoe > Fort William > [email protected] > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Railton > Sent: 23 September 2012 10:32 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [ENG-LIV] Munitions factory > > A distant connection of mine worked at a munitions factory in WWI which > was > located at the Ogdens tobacco factory. She lost her arm in an explosion > there. > > The story is that she was blown out of the factory onto the nearby railway > line where a train ran over her arm. I don't think this is true; as far as > I > know there never was a railway line anywhere near the factory. > > Can anyone direct me to information about the use of Ogdens as a munitions > factory in WWI and explosions there? Also possible nearby railway lines? I > know that it would not have been one of the main munitions factories in > Liverpool but I understand there were many small sites set up. > > > > David > > ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ > > Admin Message - List guidelines: > http://freespace.virgin.net/genealogical.collections/AdminMessage.htm > > The list admin can be contacted at > [email protected] > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ > > Admin Message - List guidelines: > http://freespace.virgin.net/genealogical.collections/AdminMessage.htm > > The list admin can be contacted at > [email protected] > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ > > Admin Message - List guidelines: > http://freespace.virgin.net/genealogical.collections/AdminMessage.htm > > The list admin can be contacted at > [email protected] > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 2012.0.2221 / Virus Database: 2441/5286 - Release Date: 09/22/12 >