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 041280
Oblique aerial view centred on the northern section of the explosives factory, taken from the NNW.
RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital
25/3/2008
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SC 1154664
Interior Factory No.1 Machine shop.
Survey of Private Collections
1/1944
© BAE Systems
SC 1154675
Interior Denitration plant, absorption towers.
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 1154851
Interior, Solvent Cordite, acetone recovery still, bottom floor.
Survey of Private Collections
1/1944
© BAE Systems
DP 067499
View from SE of the cordite blending and lotting block.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
12/10/2009
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DP 067553
View from NE of the ultrasonic inspection house.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
12/10/2009
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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 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 069736
View from SE of engineering section workshop with the oil tank area adjacent.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
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DP 069740
View from SE of the sulphuric acid pot concentration plant block.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
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DP 069760
Interior. General view of main hall of the refrigeration and air compressor plant block.
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
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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
© Crown Copyright: HES
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 069796
View from W of the rechrystallisation plant (main process plant).
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28/10/2009
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DP 069803
Interior. Rear internal wall of nitrating house showing exit pipes from process.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
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DP 069811
View from ESE of the nitration building.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
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DP 069837
View from SW of the nitro-cellulose handling house.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
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DP 069840
Interior. View of main hall of wet screening house.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
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DP 069843
View from NW of wet screening house.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
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DP 069847
View of main doors at entrance to solvent storage and handling building.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
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DP 069849
View from NW of the pilot plant wet process house.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
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DP 069858
Interior. General view across hall showing wooden vats in VAT house.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
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DP 069859
Interior. Detail metal lining of of wooden vat in the VAT house.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
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DP 069861
Interior. Detail of wooden vat with metal lining removed in VAT 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 069863
Interior. View from barrier gate to vat hall in VAT house.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
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DP 069960
Interior. View of side door entrance with shifting area and wooden rails to restrict access in the charge vat house.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
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DP 069967
View from SE of entrance area to the development laboratory.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
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DP 069984
Interior. Detail of bruner in burning sorting house.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
© Crown Copyright: HES
DP 041276
Oblique aerial view centred on the central section of the explosives factory, taken from the E.
RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital
25/3/2008
© Crown Copyright: HES
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 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 1154674
Interior Denitration Plant, still tops and Nitric acid condensors.
Survey of Private Collections
1/1944
© BAE Systems
SC 1154731
Interior Acetone treatment of primers.
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 1154791
Interior, Nitroglycerine section, pouring-on 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 1154798
Interior, Solvent Cordite including small arms cordite, carbamite preparation.
Survey of Private Collections
1/1944
© BAE Systems
SC 1154800
Internal, Solvent Cordite, solvent measuring.
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 1154808
Interior, Solvent Cordite, preparing "cheeses" for screw presses.
Survey of Private Collections
1/1944
© BAE Systems
SC 1154810
Interior, Solvent Cordite, screw press extruding .017" cordite.
Survey of Private Collections
1/1944
© BAE Systems
SC 1154823
Interior, Solvent Cordite, Acetone recovery stove, showing reels of 5-2 cordite.
Survey of Private Collections
1/1944
© BAE Systems
SC 1154824
View Solvent Cordite, trucking stoved reels on the internal narrow gauge railway .
Survey of Private Collections
1/1944
© BAE Systems
DP 067487
View from NE of band blending house, formerly the case store.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
12/10/2009
© Crown Copyright: HES
DP 067554
View from W of the ultrasonic inspection house.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
12/10/2009
© Crown Copyright: HES
DP 069672
Interior. Detail of skylight in the charge pulping and blending house.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
© Crown Copyright: HES
DP 069681
Interior. Row of beaters on first floor in the charge pulping and blending house.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
© Crown Copyright: HES
DP 069699
Interior. Detail of paddle on a beater on first floor in the pulping and blending house.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
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DP 069700
Interior. Detail of a beater with paddle 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
© Crown Copyright: HES
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 069712
Interior. Detail of potchers and blenders 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 069718
Interior. General view across ground floor of the pulping and blending house showing the blending tanks.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
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DP 069725
Interior. General view of the main processing house with the processing trays in the foreground.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
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DP 069738
View from SW of the remains of the nitro-glycerine mixed acid tank farm and pumphouse.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
© Crown Copyright: HES
DP 069742
View from NE.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
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DP 069745
View from NW of the the denitration plant block.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
© Crown Copyright: HES
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 069776
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
© Crown Copyright: HES
DP 069785
General view from SW showing paste drying units.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
© Crown Copyright: HES
DP 069794
View from SE of the mechanical pulping and blending house.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
© Crown Copyright: HES
DP 069795
View from SSE of the mechanical pulping and blending house with the cotton preparation and nitration house in the background.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
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DP 069800
Detail of rear of nitrating house showing ceramic plant.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
© Crown Copyright: HES
DP 069804
Interior. View along corridor showing notice for protection of eyes from acid splash.
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 069808
Interior. Detail of acid tanks.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
© Crown Copyright: HES
DP 069810
View from NW of the cotton preparation and nitration house.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
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DP 069812
Interior. Detail of switchgear panel in the cotton preparation and nitration building.
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 069829
Interior. View along corridor showing wooden steps to press platform 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 069844
Interior. Detail of wooden solvent storage tanks in solvent storage and handling building.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
© Crown Copyright: HES
DP 069854
Interior. View across wooden vats in VAT house.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
© Crown Copyright: HES
DP 069855
Interior. View along side corridor past wooden vats in VAT house.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
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DP 069856
Detail of a painted sign located in Bishopton Royal Ordnance Factory, warning of the hazardous working conditions.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
© Crown Copyright: HES
DP 069973
Interior. View across 2nd floor (top) of Solvent Cordite, acetone recovery still tower.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
© Crown Copyright: HES
DP 069974
Interior. Detail of 2nd floor (top) of Solvent Cordite, acetone recovery still tower.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
© Crown Copyright: HES
DP 069978
Interior. View of hydraulic press minus mantlet in gun cotton (cordite) press house.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
© Crown Copyright: HES
DP 069980
View from SW of a sample above ground air raid shelter in Factory 1.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
© Crown Copyright: HES
SC 1154663
Interior Factory No.1 Machine shops and stores
Survey of Private Collections
1/1944
© BAE Systems
SC 1154672
Interior Oleum Plant, sulphur burner and waste heat boiler.
Survey of Private Collections
1/1944
© BAE Systems
SC 1154691
Interior Weighing dry cotton, drier and willower in background.
Survey of Private Collections
1/1944
© BAE Systems
SC 1154695
Interior showing beaters, being loaded.
Survey of Private Collections
1/1944
© BAE Systems
SC 1154790
Interior, Nitroglycerine section, washing house.
Survey of Private Collections
1/1944
© BAE Systems
SC 1154802
Interior, Solvent Cordite, Incorportaor - loading.
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 1154806
Interior, Solvent Cordite, laying out .164" cordite.
Survey of Private Collections
1/1944
© BAE Systems
SC 1154811
Interior, Solvent Cordite, blanding .164" cordite.
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 069673
Interior. Detail of beaters built by Bertrams Ltd, Edinburgh in charge pulping and blending house.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
© Crown Copyright: HES
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
© Crown Copyright: HES
DP 069688
Interior. View across ground floor showing storage tanks and tank bases in the charge pulping and blending house.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
© Crown Copyright: HES
DP 069692
Interior. View of savealls in pulping and blending house.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
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DP 069693
Interior. Detail of one end of savealls in the pulping and blending house.
RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography
28/10/2009
© Crown Copyright: HES
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
© Crown Copyright: HES
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