Talk:Filling factories in the United Kingdom

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Thames Munition Works, Slade Green

Thames Munition Works at Crayford Ness in Slade Green (Kent) was significant. The evidence:

40 acre Victorian site, provided munitions for the Royal Navy's Capital ships — Preceding unsigned comment added by 0.0.0.0 (talk) 07:37, 13 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Hansard shows MPs discuss it following an explosion during peace time; exposes detail of government control
It is explicitly named on a memorial that stands in a different locality
It is mentioned in war time military reports because it took a hit during the Blitz with no detail recorded
Images of its roof tops appear in aerial photos of the Thames taken during the North Sea flooding
Various official maps show its outline and its internal railway
An MBE award for one of its superintendents, and another MBE was held by one its noted engineers
WW2 medals for moving large explosives, that were already in transit, away from fires during Blitz

Less official accounts and history books suggest the site was notably "secure", and that it may have been owned by Armstrong-Vickers. There are no photographs from ground level, and no written accounts from workers, but other government departments captured aerial photographs of the site during the 1952 North Sea Floods. Why does this massive and historically significant site receive no mention in this Article? Perhaps it was not a filling factory per se, but it operated at least one adjacent filling factory that is also not mentioned in the Article.

NTWFF Erith, in Slade Green near Erith, Kent was a Trench Warfare Filling Factory managed by neighbouring Thames Ammunition Works.

I was going to add the line above to the Article, but then realised that my source (an authority on British history) is contradicting almost everything that is currently printed in the Article. Source: http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/sites/default/files/06%20The%20National%20Factory%20Scheme%20List.pdf

Suggested List

National Filling Factory No. 1, Leeds, (Barnbow).
National Filling Factory No. 2, Liverpool, (Aintree).
National Filling Factory No. 3, Perivale, London.
National Filling Factory No.4, Houston, Renfrewshire.
National Filling Factory No. 5, Quedgeley. See RAF Quedgeley.
National Filling Factory No. 6, Chilwell.
National Filling Factory No. 7, Hayes, Middlesex.
National Filling Factory No. 8, Southwark, London
National Filling Factory No. 9, Banbury.
National Filling Factory No. 10, Whitmore Park, Coventry.
National Filling Factory No. 11, Abbey Wood, Kent.
National Filling Factory No. 12, Cardonald.
National Filling Factory No. 13, White Lund, Morecambe
National Filling Factory No. 14, Hereford
National Filling Factory No. 18, Pembrey, Port Burry

Woolwich Arsenal

This article incorrectly lists Woolwich Arsenal as a National Filling Factory. Woolwich Arsenal does not appear in official lists of National Filling Factories.

Part of the Woolwich Arsenal site was a Royal Filling Factory, which is somehow different to a National Filling Factory.