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Master Barmmie
This is a BBC audio clip about the production of ammunition at Kynoch's during WW1. Viv.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p023tcyk
The narrator of the programme sounds like Paul Franks, the chap that does the football phone ins on Radio West Midlands.
Any road, at the start of the story the Managing Director of Ely, Andrew Lane, says that Kynoch was located at Witton as George Kynoch had decided to move the factory from Whittall Street after the explosion of 1859.
Kynoch started with Messrs Persall and Phillips at Whittall Street in 1856, and it was as that Company that the explosion took place. It was not George Kynoch’s idea to move to Witton, although he would be involved, but the regulations that were set up to stop munitions factories being located in dense areas of population.
It was after the move to Witton that G Kynoch took over the Company.