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The cemetery is split by Brook Street, with the chapel in the eastern part.

This memorial to 12 women munitions workers and their male foreman who were killed in an explosion on February 18th 1924 is to be found near the entrance to the eastern part of Erith Cemetery in Brook Street. They worked at the WV Gilbert munitions works based in wooden huts on Crayford Marshes in Slade Green. It was a former Trench Warfare Filling Factory and Messrs. W.V. Gilbert were a contractor to the Disposal and Liquidation Commission. As the women sat at their work table a fire set off a series of huge blasts among the explosive cartridges. Hero of the hour was foreman Edward Jones, 29, from Dulwich. As the burning building was rocked by explosions, he went back into the blazing ruins and was killed by one of the blasts as he carried a woman away from the scene. The youngest victim was just sixteen years old. The inscriptions at the base can be seen at https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6736731 and https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6736734 and https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6736751

This is on the base of the memorial seen at https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6736722

This is on the base of the memorial seen at https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6736722

This memorial to 12 women munitions workers and their male foreman who were killed in an explosion on February 18th 1924 is to be found near the entrance to the eastern part of Erith Cemetery in Brook Street. They worked at the WV Gilbert munitions works based in wooden huts on Crayford Marshes in Slade Green. It was a former Trench Warfare Filling Factory and Messrs. W.V. Gilbert were a contractor to the Disposal and Liquidation Commission. As the women sat at their work table breaking down Verey light cartridges, a fire set off a series of huge blasts among the explosive cartridges. Hero of the hour was foreman Edward Jones, 29, from Dulwich. As the burning building was rocked by explosions, he went back into the blazing ruins and was killed by one of the blasts as he carried a woman away from the scene. The youngest victim was just sixteen years old. The full story can be seen here https://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/4155024.erith-wv-gilbert-munitions-disaster-remembered/?fbclid=IwAR1tqMO8WxqwgLFiHx7k_xzDVg-_glpGNUGFBwcpScwK8fJVexjchGB0z2I The inscriptions at the base can be seen at https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6736731 and https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6736734 and https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6736751

This photograph shows the setting of the memorial to 12 women munitions workers and their male foreman, killed in an explosion on February 18th 1924. This is near the entrance to the eastern part of Erith Cemetery in Brook Street. Hero of the hour was foreman Edward Jones, 29, from Dulwich. As the burning building was rocked by explosions, he went back into the blazing ruins and was killed by one of the blasts as he carried a woman away from the scene. The youngest victim was just sixteen years old. The inscriptions at the base can be seen at https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6736731 and https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6736734 and https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6736751

As you enter the eastern half of Erith Cemetery from Brook Street, you see this memorial to 12 women munitions workers and their male foreman who were killed in an explosion on February 18th 1924 is to be found near the entrance to the eastern part of Erith Cemetery in Brook Street. They worked at the WV Gilbert munitions works based in wooden huts on Crayford Marshes in Slade Green. It was a former Trench Warfare Filling Factory and Messrs. W.V. Gilbert were a contractor to the Disposal and Liquidation Commission. As the women sat at their work table breaking down Verey light cartridges, a fire set off a series of huge blasts among the explosive cartridges. Hero of the hour was foreman Edward Jones, 29, from Dulwich. As the burning building was rocked by explosions, he went back into the blazing ruins and was killed by one of the blasts as he carried a woman away from the scene. The youngest victim was just sixteen years old. The full story can be seen here https://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/4155024.erith-wv-gilbert-munitions-disaster-remembered/?fbclid=IwAR1tqMO8WxqwgLFiHx7k_xzDVg-_glpGNUGFBwcpScwK8fJVexjchGB0z2I The inscriptions at the base can be seen at https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6736731 and https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6736734 and https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6736751

This is on the base of the memorial seen at https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6736722

The pedestrian entrance from Riverdale Road on the right is now permanently shut off.

A large and handsome Catholic church serving a large and multi-ethnic population in the surrounding area.