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    Explosion at Low Moor Munitions Company which manufactured picric acid. Noise was heard in many parts of district. Because of wartime security, the press made little mention of the incident.

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    Explosion at Low Moor Munitions Company which manufactured picric acid. Noise was heard in many parts of district. Because of wartime security, the press made little mention of the incident.

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    WW1 Mun Factories

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    Explosion at Low Moor Munitions Company which manufactured picric acid. Noise was heard in many parts of district. Because of wartime security, the press made little mention of the incident.

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    Monday, 21st August 1916 There was a serious explosion at the Low Moor

    Munitions Company which manufactured picric acid. The explosion spread to


    the neighbouring gasworks, and destroyed a nearby railway signalling box.
    Wyke National School was damaged. The noise was heard in many parts of
    district. Because of wartime security, the press made little mention of the
    incident
    Saturday, 22nd December 1917 There was an explosion at the Sharp &
    Mallen munitions factory at Wakefield Road, Copley and North Dean. Annis
    Pearson [4] was killed by falling masonry, and two other people were injured

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