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Hi Lyn; just round the corner from where I used to live too (but not in WW2 I will hasten to add....)
Amazing to think you could have a munitions factory smack bang in the middle of a tightly packed residential area - how many people would it have taken out if something had gone "bang"?
Hi Viv; if you look at virtually all the IWM photos I have posted everyone is spotless and most of the photos look posed - very much for propaganda I think - most are by official photographers as well. Any photos from these establishments would have been subject to censorship I guess -...
All these from the Imperial War Museum Website:-
Cartridge Making Kynochs 1917:-
Bullet Velocity Testing Kynochs 1917:-
Cartridge Manufacture Kynochs 1917:-
Cartridge Barrels Kynochs 1917:-
I hope the "legs" on this 42-storey building are well made...... Looks like the kind of thing International Rescue used to get called out to on a regular basis.........
If you are going to indulge I would go for one of the flats at the back personally........
Display the photo, screenshot into word or powerpoint, then screenshot it again from there at a smaller size and try posting that - that's what I do and it seems to work.