Gunpowder mills

A photograph made by Hallam Ashley of a technical drawing done by John Smeaton in the 18th century.
See also SPAB-GPN-E-006 for a lantern slide of the same drawing.

Smeaton, John (1724-1792), engineer

Water Wheel for the Powder Mill at Worcester Park

ASHL-25-001
Item
1770s

Part of Hallam Ashley Mill Photograph Collection

A photograph made by Hallam Ashley of a technical drawing done by John Smeaton in the 18th century.

Smeaton, John (1724-1792), engineer

"The Gunpowder Mills at Hounslow"

CROC-02-07
Item
April 1984

Part of The Alan and Glenys Crocker Collection

Over, Luke

"The sporting powder industry of Great Britain III - The Hounslow powder factory"

CROC-02-08
Item
1994 (photocopy of article from 16 March 1896)

Part of The Alan and Glenys Crocker Collection

Photocopy of article.

The Sporting Goods Review

"Ken Fleming and his gunpowder mills photographs"

CROC-02-06
Item
November 1990

Part of The Alan and Glenys Crocker Collection

Article reprinted from the Gunpowder Mills Study Group Newsletter no. 8, describing the Ken Fleming albums.

Crocker, Alan (1935-2018)

"Gunpowder Mills"

CROC-02-05
Item
1980s

Part of The Alan and Glenys Crocker Collection

Contents cover the gunpowder mills on the Hogsmill River, in the Lake District, Chart and Oare Mills at Faversham, on the River Medway at Tonbridge, at Chilworth on the Tillingbourne, at Godstone.

Fleming, Kenneth Betram, photographer

Notebook from Royal Gunpowder Factory, Faversham

CROC-01-02
Item
1798, 1878

Part of The Alan and Glenys Crocker Collection

Pages from a 1798 notebook containing text and images relating to the processes carried out at the Royal Gunpowder Factory, Faversham. These have been pasted into another notebook, which has the following handwritten title page: "Papers and sketches relating to the manufacture of Gunpowder at the Royal Gunpowder Factory, Faversham in the last century. AGH and C Godfrey 23/10/78". The opening two pages are also stamped with "Curtis's and Harvey, Limited".

Godfrey, C

Notebook from Royal Gunpowder Factory, Waltham Abbey

CROC-01-01
Item
1871

Part of The Alan and Glenys Crocker Collection

Notebook containing notes on processes carried out at the mills, with two drawings of a retort and one of a densimeter.

Royal Gunpowder Factory, Waltham Abbey

"Powder Mill Explosion June 24 1910"

MCFC-WAR-USA-004
Item
24 June 1910

Part of Mildred Cookson Foundation Collection

Explosion at Clipper Gap Gunpowder Mill, Auburn, California. This postcard is used in "Mills at war", 2019, p.24.

Mill Research Notebook 27b

JSPB-1125450
Item
29 April - 1 July 1961

Part of Stephen Buckland Collection

Blue hardback notebook. Contains correspondence, transcripts, sketches and notes on SPAB tours and wind and water mills in Kent, Wiltshire, Surrey, Hertfordshire, Berkshire and Sussex. Continues in Notebook 28.

Buckland, John Stephen Percy (1935-2006), mill researcher