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S4 Ep38: The Faversham Explosives Disaster - 1916
It’s 1916. It’s Uplees just outside Faversham, and the good people of the Explosives Loading Company are about to open the biggest hole in Kent since Yates’s Wine Lodge.
In what will almost certainly be the most explosive episode of the CB Wallop Podcast ever join Phil Jerrod and Phil Lucas as they discuss The Great Faversham Explosion of 1916 - the gigantic blast that rocked the south of England, atomised over a hundred working men and boys and inadvertently implied that ladies are far better off in the kitchen.
Should you store your T.N.T. next to your Ammonium Nitrate underneath your boiler house chimney? Nope. No, don't do that. Don’t do that again.
Trigger Warning: This is basically just a bloody massive explosion over a hundred years ago in a little town in England - nothing gratuitous here - unless you consider full and frank discussions about Kent’s Biggest Padlock gratuitous - in which case, you’d be right.
Written and Researched by Phil Lucas
Edited by Phil Jerrod
Music by Steve Adam
Audio Clips:
TNT HANDLE WITH CARE WWII MUNITIONS DOCUMENTARY 33074
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtan4_wfZVM&t=358s
PeriscopeFilm
This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com
[No Copyright Music] Retro 80's Funky Jazz-Hop Instrumental (Copyright Free) Music - Sundance Remix
Music Credit: SUNDANCE
Track Name: "Perséphone - Retro Funky (SUNDANCE remix)"
Music By: SUNDANCE @ https://soundcloud.com/sundancemusic
The SUNDANCE Official Website is HERE - http://lefthandmusic.fr/
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License for commercial use: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...
Music promoted by NCM https://goo.gl/fh3rEJ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hbnMgHgZfs
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faversham_explosives_industry
https://www.faversham.org/history/explosives/great-explosion-1916
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/may/16/brian-dillon-the-great-explosion-munitions-factory-uplees-faversham-kent-1915
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1261010
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p022ykt4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xX11nrqiIZM
https://web.archive.org/web/20140409013355/http://www.canterburytimes.co.uk/Tales-horror-heroism-Great-Explosion/story-15667862-detail/story.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faversham
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uplees
https://www.faversham.org/community/parishes-and-villages/uplees
https://london-medals.co.uk/great-war-faversham-munitions-factory-explosives-loading-company-distinguished-service-medal-for-the-great-explosion-of-2nd-april-1916-silver-hallmarks-for-birmingham-with-date-letter-r-for-1916-39-mm-in-diameter-the-obverse-engraved-pro-patria-ap
http://www.gunpowderworks.co.uk/gunpowderworks/view/styles/tinymce/plugins/fileman/Uploads/H1_The_Great_Explosion_(5_pages).pdf
http://researchonline.rca.ac.uk/2449/1/Brian%20Dillon%20The%20Great%20Explosion.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amatol
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammonium_nitrate
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canary_Girls
https://www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/sites/default/files/archcant/1985%20100%20The%20Great%20Explosion%20at%20Faversham%202%20April%201916%20Percival.pdf
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1261010
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It’s 1916. It’s Uplees just outside Faversham, and the good people of the Explosives Loading Company are about to open the biggest hole in Kent since Yates’s Wine Lodge.
In what will almost certainly be the most explosive episode of the CB Wallop Podcast ever join Phil Jerrod and Phil Lucas as they discuss The Great Faversham Explosion of 1916 - the gigantic blast that rocked the south of England, atomised over a hundred working men and boys and inadvertently implied that ladies are far better off in the kitchen.
Should you store your T.N.T. next to your Ammonium Nitrate underneath your boiler house chimney? Nope. No, don't do that. Don’t do that again.
Trigger Warning: This is basically just a bloody massive explosion over a hundred years ago in a little town in England - nothing gratuitous here - unless you consider full and frank discussions about Kent’s Biggest Padlock gratuitous - in which case, you’d be right.
Written and Researched by Phil Lucas
Edited by Phil Jerrod
Music by Steve Adam
Audio Clips:
TNT HANDLE WITH CARE WWII MUNITIONS DOCUMENTARY 33074
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtan4_wfZVM&t=358s
PeriscopeFilm
This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com
[No Copyright Music] Retro 80's Funky Jazz-Hop Instrumental (Copyright Free) Music - Sundance Remix
Music Credit: SUNDANCE
Track Name: "Perséphone - Retro Funky (SUNDANCE remix)"
Music By: SUNDANCE @ https://soundcloud.com/sundancemusic
The SUNDANCE Official Website is HERE - http://lefthandmusic.fr/
Follow SUNDANCE on BandCamp: https://sundancemusic.bandcamp.com/
License for commercial use: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...
Music promoted by NCM https://goo.gl/fh3rEJ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hbnMgHgZfs
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faversham_explosives_industry
https://www.faversham.org/history/explosives/great-explosion-1916
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/may/16/brian-dillon-the-great-explosion-munitions-factory-uplees-faversham-kent-1915
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1261010
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p022ykt4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xX11nrqiIZM
https://web.archive.org/web/20140409013355/http://www.canterburytimes.co.uk/Tales-horror-heroism-Great-Explosion/story-15667862-detail/story.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faversham
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uplees
https://www.faversham.org/community/parishes-and-villages/uplees
https://london-medals.co.uk/great-war-faversham-munitions-factory-explosives-loading-company-distinguished-service-medal-for-the-great-explosion-of-2nd-april-1916-silver-hallmarks-for-birmingham-with-date-letter-r-for-1916-39-mm-in-diameter-the-obverse-engraved-pro-patria-ap
http://www.gunpowderworks.co.uk/gunpowderworks/view/styles/tinymce/plugins/fileman/Uploads/H1_The_Great_Explosion_(5_pages).pdf
http://researchonline.rca.ac.uk/2449/1/Brian%20Dillon%20The%20Great%20Explosion.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amatol
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammonium_nitrate
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canary_Girls
https://www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/sites/default/files/archcant/1985%20100%20The%20Great%20Explosion%20at%20Faversham%202%20April%201916%20Percival.pdf
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1261010
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