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Bishopton, Bishopton Royal Ordnance Factory, Factory 1

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Building(S) (20th Century), Explosives Factory (20th Century)

Site Name Bishopton, Bishopton Royal Ordnance Factory, Factory 1

Classification Building(S) (20th Century), Explosives Factory (20th Century)

Canmore ID 300775

Site Number NS47SW 149.02

NGR NS 42943 70937

NGR Description Centred NS 42943 70937

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/300775

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Oblique aerial view centred on the northern section of the explosives factory, taken from the NE.
Oblique aerial view centred on the northern section of the explosives factory, taken from the NE.Interior Oleum Plant, convertor, SO3 cooler and instrument panel.Interior Dipping cotton wasteGeneral view, Nitroglycerine section, Hill No.3Interior, Nitroglycerine section, guncotton weighing house.Interior, Solvent Cordite, mineral jelly-filtering and weighing.Interior, Solvent Cordite, reeling 5-2 cordite.General view from SE of expense stores.Interior. Detail of a beater retaining a drum mechanism in the pulping and blending house.Interior. View across first floor showing beaters in the pulping and blending house.Interior. Detail of beater on the first floor taken from the upper walkway in the pulping and blending house.Interior. Detail of Nitrocellulose, potchers and blenders in the pulping and blending house.View from SSW of the sulphuric acid pot concentration plant block.View from W of the remains of the nitro-glycerine mixed acid tank farm and pumphouse with the weak sulphuric acid tank house in the immediate background.View from SE of the Oleum and C.O.V. tank farm.View from NE.View from SW of denitration plant block.General view from NW of the nitrating house block.View from SSE of the nitrating house block.General view from the WSW of a acid tank farm with the ammoniumperchlorate store and other Factory 1 buildings in the background.View from SSW of the charge forming house with the etxernal landing of the connecting corridor (2nd floor) to the charge forming and pumping house.General view from S of acid shifting room and other buildings.View from SSW of main pulpng and blending house.Detail of the overhead transport system with the main pulping and blending house in the background.Detail of ceramic plant at rear of the nitrating house.Interior. View to cotton dipping basins with the remains of a faded over door sign in nitrating house.View from SE from cotton preparation and nitration building looking to main nitraton building.Interior. Room in development laboratory.Interior. View through door showing cordite press and rope mantlet in the gun propellant (cordite) unit and press house facility (hydraulic press house).Interior. General view through vat halls in VAT house showing overhead lighting arrangements and skylights..View of entrance to burning sorting house with detail of narrow gauge railway.Interior. View of entrance to burner rooms in burning sorting house.Oblique aerial view centred on the northern section of the explosives factory, taken from the SE.Oblique aerial view centred on the northern section of the explosives factory, taken from the N.Interior Oleum Plant, sulphur burner and waste heat boiler.Interior Denitration Plant, still tops and Nitric acid condensors.Interior Denitration plant, absorption towers.Interior Drum concentrator, showing first and second stages.Interior Wringers and screening machines.Interior, Nitrocellulose, paper scrolling machines.Interior, Solvent Cordite, Incorporator house empty charges of solvent. Mineral jelly and paste in foreground.Interior, Solvent Cordite, checking weights of cordite.Interior, Solvent Cordite, acetone absorption towers-recovery stoves.Interior. View from first floor showing a single beater, shute to ground floor with potchers in the background in the charge pulping and blending house.Interior. View across the ground floor in the charge pulping and blending house, showing the lower part of the storage tanks.Interior. View of savealls in the pulping and blending house with potcher bases adjacent.Interior. View of beaters on first floor in the pulping and blending house.Interior. View across main hall to a potcher cradle and blaneders in the pulping and blending house..Interior. Detail of blending tanks in the pulping and blending house.Interior. General view across main hall with potcher cradles (nearer) and blending tanks in the pulping and blending house.Interior. general view of pulping and blending house showing pups and framing for 2nd floor supports.Interior. Detail of the remains of a brick furnace in the main hall of the sulphuric acid pot concentration plant.General view from WSW looking to the refrigeration and air compressor plat block (for GC and NC) with a toilet block in the foreground.General view from NW of the VAT house block.View from NW of the charge forming and accumulator and pump house.View from SW of the overhead system for the transport of material with the charge forming, accumulator and pump house in the background.View from WSW showing double track narrow gauge railway leading to the apprentice pt and store.General view from ESE of the rechrystallisation plant with the main pulping and blending house in the background.Interior. Showing rear internal wall of the nitrating house.Interior. Showing cotton dipping sinks in nitrating house.Interior. View of solvent cordite press with rope mantlet and cordite laying -out table in the gun propellant (cordite) unit and press house facility (hydraulic press house). Interior. Detail of solvent cordite press and rope mantlet with cordite aying-out table in foregroaund.View from SE of the solvent storage and handling house showing extenral windows.Interior. Detail of gauge stand and hopper at edge of vat in VAT house.Interior. View of side access with shifting room and wooden rails to restrict personnel in charge vat house.Interior. Detail of drinking fountain in side door access corridor in charge vat house.Detail of carved date '19 DC 03' above Ingleston farmhouse door (Ingliston offices).View through tunnel under earth mound to entrance to burning sorting house.Oblique aerial view centred on the northern section of the explosives factory, taken from the SE.View typical tank farm.Interior showing Savealls troughs.Interior Acetone treatment of primers.Interior, Nitrocellulose, showing potchers and blenders.Interior, Nitroglycerine section, washing house.Interior, Nitroglycererine section, Quinan stoves.Interior, Solvent Cordite, inlcuding small arms cordite, picrite sieving.Internal, Solvent Cordite, solvent measuring.Interior, Solvent Cordite, hydraulic press - cordite on table.Interior, Solvent Cordite, screw press house.Interior, Solvent Cordite, acetone recovery still, top platform.General view from SE of expense stores.View from NE of band blending house, formerly the case store.Interior. Detail of steam pressure gauges in the charge forming, accumulator and pump house/pulping and blending house.Interior. Detail of beater in charge pulping and blending house.Interior. Detail of blackboard used to record production in charge pulping and blending house.Interior. Detail of electric switchgear on first floor in the charge pulping and blending house.Interior. View from first floor showing a single beater on ground floor in the charge pulping and blending house.Interior. Detail of makers name on the end of a beater in the charge pulping and blending house.Interior. Detail of the remains of a potcher cradle in the charge pulping and blending house.Interior. View of first floor with beaters and hoppers in the pulping and blending house.Interior. General view of first floor with row of beaters taken from raised inspection walkway in the pulping and blending house.Interior. Detail of potcher cradle in the pulping and blending house.Interior. General view across main hall with potcher cradles (nearer) and blending tanks in the pulping and blending house.Interior. Detail of base of a blending tank in the pulping and blending house.Interior. Detail of switchboard for rechrystallisation plant for ammonium perchlorate in the main process house.Interior. Detail of gauges on the switchgear panel of the rechrystallisation plant for ammonium perchlorate in the main process house.Interior. Detail of trays in the main process house.View from SE of NG acid mixing plant and pump house with the tank farm and acid pot concentrration plant in the background.General view from W of the nitrating house block.View from SW of the charge VAT house with the connecting (2nd floor) corridor to the charge forming, pumping and accumulator house.

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Renfrewshire
  • Parish Erskine
  • Former Region Strathclyde
  • Former District Renfrew
  • Former County Renfrewshire

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NS47SW 149.02 centred 42943 70937

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