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Photographs and Off-line Digital Images C 60072 Exterior view of acid storage tanks (AJ3, NS 2871 3990), two converted Lancashire boilers 24/7/1995 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images C 60073 General exterior view from E of Ammonia Cooling Plant House (right, AJ1, NS 2867 3991) and Glycerine Storage building (left, AJ2, NS 2868 3991) 24/7/1995 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images C 60075 Interior view from NE inside building AJ1 (NS 2867 3991) showing three Ammonia Compressors. Also in the building is a brine solution make-up tank, used tp produce coolant for the Nitrating Process 24/8/1995 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images C 60074 CN General interior view from E of Ammonia Cooling Plant House (right, AJ1, NS 2867 3991) and Glycerine Storage building (left, AJ2, NS 2868 3991) 24/8/1995 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images C 60076 Interior view from E along NE end of building AJ2 (NS 2868 3991), showing domed ends of four storage tanks, first three previously used for Glycerine/ Glycol blend, furthest used for pure glycerine, all converted egg-end boilers. The tanks now contain 'EH2' alcohol and like much of the Nitro Glycerine Hill, are part of the CNI plant used to make diesel performance enhancing additive 24/8/1995 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images C 60077 General view from NE looking up Nitro-Glycerine Hill No.2 24/8/1995 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images C 60078 Interior view in building No. AY37, showing Notroglycerine plant control panel (second panel to right removed) 24/8/1995 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images C 60079 Detail of Nitroglycerine injector assembly (almost complete), inside building No. AA2 (batch) process system in 1977, and the buildings at the top of the Nitroglycerine hill are therefore not on the 1976 survey maps 24/8/1995 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images C 60080 Oblique interior view inside building AC2, a Nitroglycerine [NG] separation and storage house, showing NG bogie on scales and three NG lead tanks (NS 2876 3983) 24/8/1995 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images C 60081 CN Oblique interior view inside building AC2, a Nitroglycerine [NG] separation and storage house, showing NG bogie on scales and three NG lead tanks (NS 2876 3983) 24/8/1995 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images C 60082 Interior view of building AC2, a Nitroglycerine [NG] separation and storage house, showing NG bogie on scales and three NG lead tanks with enclosed belfast roof trusses above 24/8/1995 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images C 60083 Detailed view inside building AC2, a Nitroglycerine [NG] separation and storage house, showing three NG lead tanks, and lead sink on far wall 24/8/1995 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images C 60084 Exterior view from S at upper level of AC2 (NS 2876 3983), showing gangway and lead-lined trough approaching building through gap in reinforced baffle wall (Chilworth Mound) 24/8/1995 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images C 60085 Elevated general view from SW looking towards 'C' house AC2 (NS 2876 3983), showing a landscape dominated by Chilworth Mounds, lightning conductors, gutters and pipework 24/8/1995 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images C 60086 Exterior view of AC2 'C' house (NG separation and storage house),from NE surrounded by Chilworth Mound, with lightning conductor (right) 24/8/1995 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images C 60087 CN Exterior view of AC2 'C' house (NG separation and storage house),from NE surrounded by Chilworth Mound, with lightning conductor (right) 24/8/1995 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images C 60088 Exterior view of E end of AC2 'C' house (NG separation and storage house) showing covered gangway emerging through tunnel in surrounding Chilworth Mound 24/8/1995 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images C 60089 Interior view of covered gangway adjacent to AC2 'C' house (NG separation and storage house, NS 2868 3991) 24/8/1995 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images C 60090 Interior view of covered gangway connecting AC2 (Nitroglycerine separation and storage house, NS 2868 3991) with Nitrocellulose/ Nitroglycerine Mixing House (PZ1, NS 2885 3984) also showing wooden guide rails for NG bogeys 24/8/1995 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images C 60091 Detail of hoist (AY21), which carried Nitroglycerine bogeys up from lower level (Nitroglycerine gangway) to upper level (gangway to Mixing House PZ1, NS 2885 3984) 24/8/1995 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images C 60092 View of covered gangway approaching Nitroglycerine/ Nitrocellulose Mixing House PZ1, NS 2885 3984) 24/8/1995 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images C 60093 View from S showing covered loading bay at the E side of building PZ1, a Nitroglycerine/ Nitrocellulose Mixing House (NS 2885 3984), wooden rails for bogeys converting to steel rails outside the loading bay area 24/8/1995 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images C 60094 Interior view within building PZ1, (a Nitroglycerine/ Nitrocellulose Mixing House (NS 2885 3984)), showing mixing vessel used to mix NG and NC with blackboard (right) used to record details of batches of wet mixed pastes 24/8/1995 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images C 60095 Exterior view from N of mixing house PZ1, (a Nitroglycerine/ Nitrocellulose Mixing House (NS 2885 3984)), showing tramway leading into covered loading bay 24/8/1995 Item Level