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| Picture No | 10438313 |
| Date | July 1847 |
| Description | Explosion at Faversham |
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The remains of a gun cotton or gun powder mill at Faversham's Marsh Works, Kent, which was destroyed in a violent explosion in 1847. The blast was so strong that it was heard 17 miles away. Trees were uprooted, windows smashed and roofs of all buildings within a quarter of a mile were stripped of their tiles. Many were killed in the explosion; the limbs of workers being found in adjacent fields and meadows.
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| Source | The Illustrated London News 24 July 1847 age 64 |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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