by Historic England 19 January 2017 4 First World War The Silvertown Tragedy: Explosion on the Home Front On 19 January 1917 at 6.52 pm, a catastrophic explosion at the Brunner Mond and Company’s high explosive TNT factory in Silvertown, East London, killed 73 people and injured hundreds.
by Historic England 5 July 2016 2 Architecture First World War Historic photography Second World War 6 Sites of Memory for Overseas War Heroes The First and Second World Wars were truly global in scale and involvement.
by Historic England 14 August 2014 3 First World War Historic photography Britain’s Home Front: 9 Remarkable Aerial Images That Reveal the Impact of the First World War 1. National Projectile Factory in Hackney, London During the First World War demand for munitions soared and sections of theContinue Reading