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What was this structure on the old insurance map ? Could it be where the later staircase (in the rebuilt #42/42A) might have been ? Was...

This was how that stretch between Cannon Street and Needless Alley looked as per Mike's insurance map post #215 and before rebuilding in...

The insurance map below is probably no help as it is from 1889, and likely ( ?) be before present building, but, according to my...

Kynoch munitions at its peak 1880-1918….1918 employed around 20,000….war production and Government contracts. 1919 slump. Arklow plant...

“excessive power and influence landing up in the hands of trade unions, some with a particular political agenda, and the resulting...

I had a look at the app. It gave me 3 words for my location, English words. When I switched to French, it gave me 3 more French words...

Thanks Chris for your on-line history of Kynochs which gives us material which might have been omitted from the official company histories.

“Thank you for indulging me.” What a nice phrase, much nicer than “Thank you for your attention to this matter!”

Thank you Chris! What I don’t understand is why the city fathers didn’t fight (&win) to save some of those businesses or replacements...

Yes, Richard, as Stokkie says, the business has been transformed over the last few decades with all the original activities such as...

https://www.business-live.co.uk/economic-development/pre-christmas-exit-imi-winds-down-8299744 Business Live Dec 2014 suggests the...

Thank you! That is very helpful and informative! I’m just curious as to what happened and will follow up on what you have provided...

i wonder if there are anymore in yorks wood which looks a vast area so would take someone with good walking legs to go and have a look...

I'm certainly not an expert here Richard, but the nature of IMI's business changed. You can read an unofficial history of Kynoch here...

Absolutely, here is Proof House Junction on the Digbeth Branch Canal ///drift.fame.exit