Bishopton, Bishopton Royal Ordnance Factory, Factory 1
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
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DP 041278
Oblique aerial view centred on the northern section of the explosives factory, taken from the NE.
RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital
25/3/2008
© Crown Copyright: HES
SC 1154673
Interior Oleum Plant, convertor, SO3 cooler and instrument panel.
Survey of Private Collections
1/1944
© BAE Systems
SC 1154692
Interior Dipping cotton waste
Survey of Private Collections
1/1944
© BAE Systems
SC 1154789
General view, Nitroglycerine section, Hill No.3
Survey of Private Collections
1/1944
© BAE Systems
SC 1154795
Interior, Nitroglycerine section, guncotton weighing house.
Survey of Private Collections
1/1944
© BAE Systems
SC 1154799
Interior, Solvent Cordite, mineral jelly-filtering and weighing.
Survey of Private Collections
1/1944
© BAE Systems
SC 1154825
Interior, Solvent Cordite, reeling 5-2 cordite.
Survey of Private Collections
1/1944
© BAE Systems
DP 067485
General view from SE of expense stores.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
12/10/2009
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DP 069696
Interior. Detail of a beater retaining a drum mechanism in the pulping and blending house.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
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DP 069704
Interior. View across first floor showing beaters in the pulping and blending house.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
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DP 069708
Interior. Detail of beater on the first floor taken from the upper walkway in the pulping and blending house.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
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DP 069709
Interior. Detail of Nitrocellulose, potchers and blenders in the pulping and blending house.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
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DP 069737
View from SSW of the sulphuric acid pot concentration plant block.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
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DP 069739
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.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
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DP 069741
View from SE of the Oleum and C.O.V. tank farm.
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28/10/2009
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DP 069742
View from NE.
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28/10/2009
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DP 069749
View from SW of denitration plant block.
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28/10/2009
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DP 069763
General view from NW of the nitrating house block.
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28/10/2009
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DP 069768
View from SSE of the nitrating house block.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
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DP 069771
General view from the WSW of a acid tank farm with the ammoniumperchlorate store and other Factory 1 buildings in the background.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
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DP 069775
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.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
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DP 069787
General view from S of acid shifting room and other buildings.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
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DP 069789
View from SSW of main pulpng and blending house.
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28/10/2009
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DP 069793
Detail of the overhead transport system with the main pulping and blending house in the background.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
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DP 069801
Detail of ceramic plant at rear of the nitrating house.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
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DP 069805
Interior. View to cotton dipping basins with the remains of a faded over door sign in nitrating house.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
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DP 069814
View from SE from cotton preparation and nitration building looking to main nitraton building.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
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DP 069821
Interior. Room in development laboratory.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
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DP 069830
Interior. View through door showing cordite press and rope mantlet in the gun propellant (cordite) unit and press house facility (hydraulic press house).
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
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DP 069862
Interior. General view through vat halls in VAT house showing overhead lighting arrangements and skylights..
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
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DP 069981
View of entrance to burning sorting house with detail of narrow gauge railway.
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28/10/2009
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DP 069985
Interior. View of entrance to burner rooms in burning sorting house.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
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DP 041277
Oblique aerial view centred on the northern section of the explosives factory, taken from the SE.
RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital
25/3/2008
© Crown Copyright: HES
DP 041279
Oblique aerial view centred on the northern section of the explosives factory, taken from the N.
RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital
25/3/2008
© Crown Copyright: HES
SC 1154672
Interior Oleum Plant, sulphur burner and waste heat boiler.
Survey of Private Collections
1/1944
© BAE Systems
SC 1154674
Interior Denitration Plant, still tops and Nitric acid condensors.
Survey of Private Collections
1/1944
© BAE Systems
SC 1154675
Interior Denitration plant, absorption towers.
Survey of Private Collections
1/1944
© BAE Systems
SC 1154687
Interior Drum concentrator, showing first and second stages.
Survey of Private Collections
1/1944
© BAE Systems
SC 1154698
Interior Wringers and screening machines.
Survey of Private Collections
1/1944
© BAE Systems
SC 1154701
Interior, Nitrocellulose, paper scrolling machines.
Survey of Private Collections
1/1944
© BAE Systems
SC 1154801
Interior, Solvent Cordite, Incorporator house empty charges of solvent. Mineral jelly and paste in foreground.
Survey of Private Collections
1/1944
© BAE Systems
SC 1154807
Interior, Solvent Cordite, checking weights of cordite.
Survey of Private Collections
1/1944
© BAE Systems
SC 1154849
Interior, Solvent Cordite, acetone absorption towers-recovery stoves.
Survey of Private Collections
1/1944
© BAE Systems
DP 069679
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.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
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DP 069690
Interior. View across the ground floor in the charge pulping and blending house, showing the lower part of the storage tanks.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
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DP 069694
Interior. View of savealls in the pulping and blending house with potcher bases adjacent.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
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DP 069695
Interior. View of beaters on first floor in the pulping and blending house.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
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DP 069713
Interior. View across main hall to a potcher cradle and blaneders in the pulping and blending house..
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
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DP 069714
Interior. Detail of blending tanks in the pulping and blending house.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
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DP 069717
Interior. General view across main hall with potcher cradles (nearer) and blending tanks in the pulping and blending house.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
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DP 069722
Interior. general view of pulping and blending house showing pups and framing for 2nd floor supports.
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28/10/2009
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DP 069734
Interior. Detail of the remains of a brick furnace in the main hall of the sulphuric acid pot concentration plant.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
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DP 069755
General view from WSW looking to the refrigeration and air compressor plat block (for GC and NC) with a toilet block in the foreground.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
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DP 069765
General view from NW of the VAT house block.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
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DP 069773
View from NW of the charge forming and accumulator and pump house.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
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DP 069779
View from SW of the overhead system for the transport of material with the charge forming, accumulator and pump house in the background.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
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DP 069781
View from WSW showing double track narrow gauge railway leading to the apprentice pt and store.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
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DP 069798
General view from ESE of the rechrystallisation plant with the main pulping and blending house in the background.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
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DP 069802
Interior. Showing rear internal wall of the nitrating house.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
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DP 069806
Interior. Showing cotton dipping sinks in nitrating house.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
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DP 069831
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).
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
© Crown Copyright: HES
DP 069832
Interior. Detail of solvent cordite press and rope mantlet with cordite aying-out table in foregroaund.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
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DP 069842
View from SE of the solvent storage and handling house showing extenral windows.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
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DP 069864
Interior. Detail of gauge stand and hopper at edge of vat in VAT house.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
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DP 069959
Interior. View of side access with shifting room and wooden rails to restrict personnel in charge vat house.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
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DP 069963
Interior. Detail of drinking fountain in side door access corridor in charge vat house.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
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DP 069964
Detail of carved date '19 DC 03' above Ingleston farmhouse door (Ingliston offices).
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
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DP 069982
View through tunnel under earth mound to entrance to burning sorting house.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
© Crown Copyright: HES
DP 041275
Oblique aerial view centred on the northern section of the explosives factory, taken from the SE.
RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital
25/3/2008
© Crown Copyright: HES
SC 1154699
Interior showing Savealls troughs.
Survey of Private Collections
1/1944
© BAE Systems
SC 1154731
Interior Acetone treatment of primers.
Survey of Private Collections
1/1944
© BAE Systems
SC 1154732
Interior, Nitrocellulose, showing potchers and blenders.
Survey of Private Collections
1/1944
© BAE Systems
SC 1154790
Interior, Nitroglycerine section, washing house.
Survey of Private Collections
1/1944
© BAE Systems
SC 1154794
Interior, Nitroglycererine section, Quinan stoves.
Survey of Private Collections
1/1944
© BAE Systems
SC 1154797
Interior, Solvent Cordite, inlcuding small arms cordite, picrite sieving.
Survey of Private Collections
1/1944
© BAE Systems
SC 1154800
Internal, Solvent Cordite, solvent measuring.
Survey of Private Collections
1/1944
© BAE Systems
SC 1154803
Interior, Solvent Cordite, hydraulic press - cordite on table.
Survey of Private Collections
1/1944
© BAE Systems
SC 1154809
Interior, Solvent Cordite, screw press house.
Survey of Private Collections
1/1944
© BAE Systems
SC 1154850
Interior, Solvent Cordite, acetone recovery still, top platform.
Survey of Private Collections
1/1944
© BAE Systems
DP 067484
General view from SE of expense stores.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
12/10/2009
© Crown Copyright: HES
DP 067487
View from NE of band blending house, formerly the case store.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
12/10/2009
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DP 069671
Interior. Detail of steam pressure gauges in the charge forming, accumulator and pump house/pulping and blending house.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
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DP 069675
Interior. Detail of beater in charge pulping and blending house.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
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DP 069676
Interior. Detail of blackboard used to record production in charge pulping and blending house.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
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DP 069677
Interior. Detail of electric switchgear on first floor in the charge pulping and blending house.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
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DP 069680
Interior. View from first floor showing a single beater on ground floor in the charge pulping and blending house.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
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DP 069683
Interior. Detail of makers name on the end of a beater in the charge pulping and blending house.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
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DP 069684
Interior. Detail of the remains of a potcher cradle in the charge pulping and blending house.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
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DP 069702
Interior. View of first floor with beaters and hoppers in the pulping and blending house.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
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DP 069703
Interior. General view of first floor with row of beaters taken from raised inspection walkway in the pulping and blending house.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
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DP 069710
Interior. Detail of potcher cradle in the pulping and blending house.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
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DP 069716
Interior. General view across main hall with potcher cradles (nearer) and blending tanks in the pulping and blending house.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
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DP 069724
Interior. Detail of base of a blending tank in the pulping and blending house.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
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DP 069726
Interior. Detail of switchboard for rechrystallisation plant for ammonium perchlorate in the main process house.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
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DP 069727
Interior. Detail of gauges on the switchgear panel of the rechrystallisation plant for ammonium perchlorate in the main process house.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
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DP 069729
Interior. Detail of trays in the main process house.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
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DP 069744
View from SE of NG acid mixing plant and pump house with the tank farm and acid pot concentrration plant in the background.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
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DP 069764
General view from W of the nitrating house block.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
© Crown Copyright: HES
DP 069774
View from SW of the charge VAT house with the connecting (2nd floor) corridor to the charge forming, pumping and accumulator house.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
© Crown Copyright: HES
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- Council Renfrewshire
- Parish Erskine
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Renfrew
- Former County Renfrewshire
NS47SW 149.02 centred 42943 70937
