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Uplees is a
remote hamlet north of Faversham, Kent in
southeast England. It was a key part of the
Faversham explosives industry during World War I, with...
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towards The
Swale as it
crossed Uplees Marches. The
northern terminus of the p****enger line was at
Uplees Station. One of the
locomotives is believed...
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independent of the
gunpowder factories,
opened a new
plant on a
remote site near
Uplees,
about four km
northwest of the town centre. It was
still within the parish...
- 1916 115 700 The
Great Explosion: On 2
April 1916, at 14:20, a
factory in
Uplees, Faversham,
exploded after a fire
spread to a
store of 25 tons of TNT and...
- personnel. On 2
April 1916, an
explosion blew
through the
gunpowder mill at
Uplees, near Faversham, Kent, when 200 tons of TNT ignited. 105
people died in...
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Stalisfield •
Stone Chapel •
Teynham •
Throwley •
Tonge •
Tunstall •
Upchurch •
Uplees •
Warden •
Waterham •
Whitehill Thanet 12
Margate Acol • Birchington-on-Sea...
- Shipwright's Arms,
Faversham Recreation Ground, The
Market Inn, Oare Marshes,
Uplees Cottage, as well as
other locations in Kent such as Whitstable, East Kent...
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village and took
workers from Oare halt to the main
munitions factories at
Uplees. "Civil
Parish po****tion 2011".
Neighbourhood Statistics.
Office for Nationbal...
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Sunday 2
April 1916, an
explosion occurred at one of the
Swale factories in
Uplees after sparks from a
chimney ignited the
works containing around 150 tonnes...
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worked as a
chemist at the new
factory of the
Cotton Powder Company at
Uplees, Faversham, Kent, England.
While there, he and the
factory manager, George...
