The Gunpowder Factory, Waltham Abbey
- WPAC-WAT-00897
- Item
- 1905 or earlier
This image is undated; however it cannot be later than 1905 as this copy of the postcard bears a postmark of that date.
Martin, Charles
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The Gunpowder Factory, Waltham Abbey
This image is undated; however it cannot be later than 1905 as this copy of the postcard bears a postmark of that date.
Martin, Charles
Illustration aspects of water mill
Part of SPAB Mills Section Collection
Part of Niall Roberts Collection
Contains a copy of the Gunpowder Mills Study Group Newsletter 18, February 1996; handout containing various mills in Lancashire and Cumbria; photocopy of a newspaper article about Waltham Abbey Gunpowder mill.
See list.
Negatives of Royal Gunpowder Mills, Waltham Abbey
Photographs of Crux Easton wind engine; Repps wind engine; Waltham Abbey gunpowder mills; Coxes Lane, Midgham, Berks
Miscellaneous photos - Waltham Abbey Gunpowder Works, Jesmond Mill, Cobham Park Surrey (1884), copy of drawing signed Whitmore of Binyon, topographical history of Surrey, 1850, oil mill machinery.
Folly Bridge, Oxford; Flanchford Mill, Reigate; Hartwith Mill, Harrogate; The Mill, Henley on Thames; Royal Gunpowder Mills, Waltham Abbey; Euston Watermill; Hunstmoor Weir, Cowley; Dunstable, Beds; Oxford Castle; Roman Watermills.
Part of Hugh Howes Collection
Notes and photocopies.
Howes, Hugh
Part of E M Gardner Collection
Reproduction of original at the British Museum.
Gardner, Emilie Montgomery (1882-1959)
"The River Lea - London's second river"
Part of Brian Eighteen Mill Collection
This resume gives historical context of the River Lea and its tributaries on its way to the River Thames. The navigation of the River Lea via canal and river were improved to enable barges to carry larger cargoes to and from London. Many mills wee established along the length of between Hertford and Bow, milling flour, malt and barley etc.
Turner, Alan
RCHME site reports on Waltham Abbey gunpowder mills
Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England
Notebook from Royal Gunpowder Factory, Waltham Abbey
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
"For Mr Walton's double stack of Powder Mills at Waltham Abbey"
Volume II - Mills and machines drawings by John Smeaton, sheet 33v.
Design for Mr Walton's double stack of Powder Mills at Waltham Abbey
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