Stowmarket's Gun Cotton Explosion Memorial
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Stowmarket's Gun Cotton Explosion Memorial
Image: © Adrian S Pye Taken: 16 Oct 2016
Disaster struck Stowmarket on 11 August 1871, when an explosion at the Prentice Patent Safety Gun-cotton Company Factory claimed twenty-four lives and left seventy five injured, the site of the explosion is now home to a large paint factory. Gun cotton was used as an explosive force for torpedoes, which the Messrs. Prentice were at the time manufacturing in great numbers for the British Government. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5157042
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Image Location
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52.194233
Longitude
0.990885