Spennymoor became part of the South West Durham depressed area. Some of the largest horse-race meetings in the North took place on the moor, and miners and their families attended in all their holiday splendour. ROF Bishopton; Explosive ROF (3 factories). The Gordon Street Factory used the monogram MF2 for a short time during 1940. Used the monogram 1942 to 1943. Penny Rate Product 239. RA Raufoss Ammunisjonsfabrikker, Raufoss, NORWAY. By this time we were given mugs of tea and corned beef sarnies. RTS Richard Threlfall and Sons, UNITED KINGDOM. CHINA is known to have produced some 7.7mm rimmed ammunition for use in captured Japanese machine guns from 1945 onwards. Town wins award in Britain in Bloom Competition. I worked at the Royal Ordnance factory (ROF) at Spennymoor. As a result, many hundreds of immigrant workers came here from the Midlands and more rows of dark little houses were erected. 17. Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded .303 cartridges in: Ball, Mk 7. Beretta Group owns now the Tikka arms brand. however, William allowed some of the previous owners to retain their lands, and one of these was Whittleworth now Whitworth whose first known proprietor was Thomas de Acle who held it in 1183. 1941 Royal Ordnance Factory opens. 1931 Pilgrim Trust founds the Settlement. 1916 Town Hall built at a cost of 18,000. Her advance guards clashed with some of Douglas men near Ferryhill and chased them back to the bridge at Croxdale (Sunderland Bridge). Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: TM..B Pirotechnia di Bologna, ITALY. Its largest division was ammunition followed by tanks and fighting vehicles, which had factories at Leeds and Nottingham[8]. A nursery school was opened in the park to look after children while mothers did war work. This Military Arsenal became Nederland Wapen & Munitiefabrikde Kruithoorn NV,s Hertogenbosch and later became Eurometaal. They used the MF monogram May 1926 to 1945 and the AF monogram from January 1924 to February 1925. 915.78 GBX Go to investor center Data is from the London Stock Exchange and may be delayed by 15 minutes or more. people who designed and built them. It is known to have manufactured .303 cartridges in: Cartridge Rifle Grenade, Cordite H Mk 3 and H Mk 5. Quarter inch green band Canadian made tracer, Wide green band at equator of case Canadian made Match Ball (1922), Six purple bands around equator of case Canadian Match Ball (1926), Ball round with case blackened quarter inch back from the mouth Short Range Practice Mk 1 (1895 1897), or Mk 2 (1899 1912), Case completely blackened with brass dummy bullet Blank with mock bullet Mk 6, Blank case all black Rifle grenade blank Mk 2, Blank, front half black Rifle Grenade, Ballistite, Blank, front and rear thirds black Rifle grenade Mk 4 for Grenade No 85, Blank, rear half black Rifle grenade blank Mk 7z or Smoke discharger Mk 1T, Ball, reddened case Proof round Mks 1 to 3. 1891 Whitworth Hall restored after fire of 1877. This mark of bullet remained the standard ball round for the remainder of the .303 cartridges service life. They had a filling factory at Abbey Wood and later during the 1939-45 war a filling factory at Farnham. AOC Bombrini, Parodi et Delfino, Rome, ITALY. Next we went with the WAAFs to see how they packed parachutes for the boys. Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. Whitworth Hall severely damaged by fire. DA Dominion Arsenal, Montreal, CANADA. The headstamp code G, denoting manufacturer, should not be confused with G as in GIV indicating a tracer cartridge. Known to have manufactured .303 cartridges in: US United States Cartridge Co, Lowell, Mass., UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. This factory was set up as part of the 1939-45 war emergency expansion plan. ROF Blackpool; SAA Factory. Lost in the Blackout. Types of Royal Ordnance Factories (ROFs) 1. 1931 Road Tolls ceased at Page Bank Bridge. The next day the main bodies of the two armies met at Nevilles Cross, near Durham, and the Scots were slaughtered. Nevertheless, the whole of this countryside was made desolate by Williams soldiers, and for many years it was the haunt of outlaws and wild animals. The Mark VI round was introduced in 1904 with a 215 grain jacketed round nosed bullet similar to the Mark II bullet but with a thinner jacket. Email: info@spennymoor-tc.gov.uk. Quite a few of these men must have been miners, as at that time coale pits were being worked at Whitworth, Byers Green and Fernhill. You appear to have JavaScript disabled in your browser settings. Brighter Days 299.06 KB. SR = Royal Ordnance Factory - Spennymoor, United Kingdom. The back streets stand deep in filth and mud. MJ Small Arms Ammunition Factory No 4, Hendon, AUSTRALIA. Since the introduction of the .303 cartridge in 1889 it has been manufactured in at least 20 countries and in nearly 200 military variants as well as in numerous experimental and sporting cartridge configurations. Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded .303 (identified on headstamp as 7.70) cartridges during 1918 in: Also known to have produced ball rounds in the 1920s and 30s, A VE Atelier de Construction de Valence, FRANCE. TW = Twin Cities Ordnance Plant - Minneapolis, Minnesota. 1921 Royal Ordnance took over the National Filling Factories. Some military training seems to have been given, doubtless with a view to the then unsettled state of the country due to the growing tension between Parliament and the King. MW Small Arms Ammunition Factory No 6, Welchpool, AUSTRALIA. MF or AF Small Arms Ammunition Factory No 1, Footscray, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA. manufacturing in Britain. The greatest project came with the development of the Tudhoe ironworks site 70 acres that was turned into the Bessemer Park Housing Estate. c 1948. We were also allowed inside a Halifax Bomber and according to a map we flew all over Darlington and Durham. Martha Liddle, J.P., was the first person from Spennymoor to be awarded the M.B.E. Made dummy drill rounds with a one piece tinplate case and bullet and having a crimped on base in 1915. By 1935 the first 66 Council houses had been built, and a year later the first 106 North Eastern Housing Association houses were erected on the Racecourse Estate site. 2003 Spennymoor Cemetery Memorial Garden officially opened. This was very interesting there of course was a special way of doing this that it opened properly when required. Population 16,369. A further reorganisation and expansion followed in 1889 when George Kynoch was ousted from the management and this then culminated in a further change of title to Kynoch Ltd in 1897. As is to be expected, the moor itself offers little of historical interest but it is linked with the records of Kirk Merrington, Whitworth Old Park, Binchester, Byers Green and Tudhoe, all of which form a part of the early days of Spennymoor. Royal Small Arms Factory Enfield Factory No 2. This is an insight into the Aycliffe Royal Ordnance Factory, ROF 59, (1941-1945) and the 'Aycliffe Angels'. The .303 British Service cartridge, commonly known as the .303 or .303 British was adopted by Britain along with the Lee Metford Rifle in 1889. 11. This company was already in existence but unconnected with ammunition manufacture when the 1939 1945 war broke out. U = Utah Ordnance Plant - Salt Lake City, Utah. info@spennymoor-tc.gov.uk We had workers playtime during our half hour break. Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded .303 cartridges in: AE Arsenal do Ejercito, Lisbon, PORTUGAL. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of Powder was stored at Greenwich from an early date. 1855 The Ordnance Office was dissolved in 1855. HXP Greek Powder and Cartridge Co, Athens, GREECE. 1995 H.M. Queen Elizabeth II visited the Thorn Lighting factory at Spennymoor. The following types of .303 cartridges are known to have been produced during the period 1897 to 1919: Armour Piercing Mks VII.P, VII.W and VII.W.Z, Cartridge Rifle Grenade, Ballistite H Mk 1. ROF Brackla; Filling Factory No. This propellant, however, was not considered to be as stable as cordite in the tropics and cordite was, therefore, still retained as a propellant in military cartridges for the remainder of the cartridges service life. Aycliffe filled the cases which we produced and this was very dangerous work. D, DF, N or S Indian Government Ammunition Factory, Dum Dum, Calcutta, INDIA. By 1860, the factory was producing more than 90,000 rifles, or 1,744 a week. Spennymoor Circus and Novely Hippodrome opened. A National School was built and opened in 1841; St.Pauls Church was built at Spennymoor in 1858 and all through these formative years the Non-conformist churches combined welfare work with prayer. 2002 Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee, Parade of Golden Roses, Jubilee Park. manufacturing in Britain. 2000 Millennium Mining Memorial unveiled in Victoria Jubilee Park. 1953 St Pauls Church damaged by fire. To see the Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: NORMA or norma Norma Projectilfabrik, Amotfors, SWEDEN. The company was formed in the early 1890s having acquired the Holford Works of the National Arms and Ammunition Company and was in existence for only a short time. My brother-in-law was taken prisoner in Italy. Known to have produced .303 cartridges 1914 1918 in: MAXIM Maxim Arms Co.,London, UNITED KINGDOM. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: F Small Arms Ammunition Factory, Footscray, AUSTRALIA. The Royal Small Arms Factory site at Enfield was purchased in 1811 and operations commenced in 1816; the work of the Lewisham establishment was transferred there in 1818. . 1895 First meeting of Urban District Council. 1935 Tudhoe Colliery closes. Royal Small Arms Factory Enfield Factory No 2. In 1938 the .303 Mark VIIIZ round was approved to obtain greater effective range from the Vickers Medium Machine Gun. Population declines to 15,440.First Council houses erected on racecourse site. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: MS Explosives Factory, Salisbury, AUSTRALIA. British military contracts 1914 1917, Ball, Mk 7Z (Canadian Pattern). M Nobel Explosives Ltd., Manchester, UNITED KINGDOM. More workers came from Wales and Lancashire with the opening of the mine at Page Bank (ten lives were lost in a pit fire here in 1858), and with the sinking of a new pit at Tudhoe in the 1880s. The following .303 cartridges are known to have been produced by Kynoch: Armour Piercing Mks VII.S, VII.P, VII.W, W Mk 1 and W Mk 1Z, Ball, Nitro-cellulose Mk 8z with Aluminium Case, Drill, D Mk 6, D Mk 8, D Mk 9 and D Mk 10. Royal Powder Mill Factory No 31. 1899 Control of the factories was returned to the Ordnance Department. This is a list of Royal Ordnance Factories. It was selected to produce small arms ammunition as part of the 1939-1945 war emergency expansion plans. Royal Arsenal Factory No 1. 1913 Queen Mary visits the town. Cartridges known to have been manufactured in: MEN Maschinenfabrik Elisenhutte, Nassau, WEST GERMANY. Monogram in use 1940 to 1945. Smart and Brown opens on Ordnance Factory site. Known to have produced .303 ball cartridges c 1934. E or EB Eley Brothers, Edmonton, London, UNITED KINGDOM. Durham Light Infantry Brigade had lots of men from Spennymoor were sent to Oxford to train for overseas, they were billeted in a brewery in Nook Norton. Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded .303 Ball cartridges 1923. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: Gallery Practice Mk 1 ( Black powder Canada ), Gallery Practice Mk 1 ( Smokeless Canada ). Royal Navy Destroyer H.M.S. 1949 Bungalows built at Middlestone Moor. On 2 January the majority were vested in the UK Government-owned company Royal Ordnance Plc together with 3 Agency-operated Factories, the Waltham Abbey south site and the Royal Small Arms Factory. ROF Patricroft; M/C Shop Engineering ROF. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: Blank, Nitro-cellulose L Canadian Mk 1 (1955 & 1956). This factory made and marked cases but filling was carried out at the Royal Ordnance Factory Swynnerton, Staffs. El Alamein. Town Hall refurbished. During WW1 Greenwood & Batley are known to have produced in excess of 705 million .303 Mk 7 cartridges. With few exceptions, the housing situation was little better than when Dodd had described the houses as more like piggeries. people who designed and built them. ROF Bishopton; Explosive ROF (3 factories). We were then taken to the canteen for lunch, which consisted of battered spam and chips. MI Societe Meridionale dIndustrie, Robert Paulet & Cie ( formerly called Cartoucherie Leon Paulet), Marseille, FRANCE. In 1420 the Manor of Whitworth and much of the other land in the vicinity, from Raby to Brancepeth, and including Old Park, Byers Green, Newfield and Tudhoe, became Neville property, and the Earl of Westmorland (a Neville) was granted a licence from Bishop Langley to impark 40 acres at Whitworth, and so began the Whitworth park of today. Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded .303 Ball cartridges, VIS Atelier de Chargement de Vincennes, FRANCE. Spennymoor Settlement, opened in 1931 with a grant from the Pilgrim Trust, aimed to support the unemployed by encouraging : Tolerant neighbourliness and voluntary social service and {giving} its members opportunities for increasing their knowledge, widening their interests and cultivating their creative powers in a friendly atmosphere. Nobel Industries in turn was to become part of the new giant Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd when it was formed in 1926. Spennymoor Leisure Pool opened cost 1.6m. 1987 Middlestone Moor Community Centre extended. 1985 There were 12 Royal Ordnance Factories still in operation. 1942 There were 42 Royal Ordnance factories at this time, of which 24 were engineering, 8 made explosives, and 10 were engaged in filling ordnance (these numbers seem to have been confused by the MP reporting these statistics). 1897 Kenmirs furniture factory opens in Silver Street. This distinction was abandoned in May 1920 and thereafter all ball rounds had the purple annulus. This company was formed in 1890 at Kings Norton, it owned its own rolling mills and had a loading plant at Abbey wood in Kent. asked the Minister of War Transport (1) whether he will provide omnibus facilities to enable girls to travel from Ferryhill and Merrington to the Royal Ordnance factory at Spennymoor in time to commence work at 7.30 a.m., and an omnibus service back to Ferryhill at 5 p.m.; The Badcock Armoury closed. Archive List > United Kingdom > Wearside and County Durham, Submitted by Christine Rome at Spennymoor Library on behalf of Elizabeth Hodgson (ne Monaghan). information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: G, GB or GBF Greenwood and Batley, Leeds, UNITED KINGDOM. When operational, the Bishopton site was the Royal Ordnance's primary manufacturer of propellants for gun and rocket systems and around 75% of the . The coal industry has been replaced by manufacturers of consumer goods, and factories of Electrolux, Thorn Lighting and Black and Decker were established. The Manor of Merrington belonged successively to the priors, monks and dean and chapter of Durham Cathedral. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy FN Fabrique National dArmes de Guerre, Herstal, BELGIUM. He was in a parachute regiment when Italy capitulated. This factory was built in 1916 and was administered on behalf of the Government by the Kings Norton Metal Co. Production of .303 cartridges did not start until late 1918 and the production of all ammunition finally ceased in early 1919. In 1923 only four houses were built and there was still massive overcrowding in back to back properties. 1985 Victoria Jubilee Park purchased by the Town Council. High Street, Coloured bands on the cartridge case are not common but the following have been used: One inch blue band Reduced charge ball to simulate stoppages in Vickers aircraft guns. D Dominion Cartridge Co., Brownsberg, Quebec, CANADA. A A On cartridges c 1917 indicated a Pomeroy explosive incendiary Mk 2 bullet, C on early pre 1912 cartridges denoted a Cordite propellant charge, K On cartridges c 1918 indicated a Brock explosive incendiary bullet, Z indicated a nitro-cellulose propellant charge in the cartridge. Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded .303 cartridges in: 130gr, 150gr, 180gr and 215 gr jacketed soft point sporting ammunition, OFN Government Ordinance Factory, Lagos, NIGERIA. Do Hirtenberg Patronenfabrik factory at Dordrecht, NETHERLANDS. Nevertheless, the situation remained bad and there were still far too many damp, badly lit and ventilated houses opening onto small paved yards or back streets. Although these were the only houses built before the war, they did provide some hope and allowed the clearance of some of the worst of the squalid areas. Between 1988 and 1992 the Gordon Street factory used the monogram AFF. Royal Ordnance Factory. Population rises to 19,560. Incendiary B Mk 3, B Mk 4Z*, B Mk 6, B Mk 6Z. We used to shelter under the stairs during air raids. Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded cartridges in: APX Atelier de Construction de Puteaux, FRANCE. Servicesheld in Town Hall. More than 17,000 women worked at the factory, and Ms Scott said . This factory was set up as part of the 1939-1945 war emergency expansion plan. Although schemes were inaugurated to relieve the gloom nothing could make up for the lack of steady employment. They received their first Government contract for the supply of Mk 7 Ball ammunition in 1915 and continued to produce until the end of 1918 at their new factory at Tyseley. 1889 William Anderson was appointed Director General of Ordnance Factories, responsible for the ordnance factories, laboratory, carriage department and gun factory at Woolwich Arsenal, the small-arms factories at Enfield and Birmingham, and the gunpowder factory at Waltham Abbey. Initially ICI Ltd were to have operated this plant but they were advised in 1940 of the change in plans and the factory was run as a Royal Ordnance Factory by the Ministry of Supply. The propellant interests being concentrated mainly at Ardeer within the Nobel Division of ICI. Slightly before that, in the 1860s, a rather advanced area of working-class housing had been erected at Tudhoe Grange built by Marmaduke Salvin to house local workers. Cases were made in Birmingham then assembled and loaded at the Abbey Wood Factory, next to Woolwich Arsenal. 1942 There were 42 Royal Ordnance factories at this time, of which 24 were engineering, 8 made explosives, and 10 were engaged in filling ordnance (these numbers seem to have been confused by the MP reporting these statistics). 8; . Known to have produced .303 cartridges with this headstamp April 1921 to December 1923, although some also produced in March 1924. 1984 Royal Armament Research and Development Establishment's Waltham Abbey south site became part of Royal Ordnance. ROF Blackburn. I remember Lord Haw Haw on radio speaking from Germany calling. 1968 Bessemer Park Housing commenced (1,009 houses). After May 1918 the CAC monogram was used with two arrows . 1890 Tudhoe Iron Works produced 50,000 tons of steel. We were then introduced to a number of Canadian boys. The most common system with the .303 cartridge used coloured bullet tips or colour around the annulus of the primer cap. Eley Brothers are known to have produced .303 cartridges in: Explosive Pomeroy Mk 1, PSA Mk 1, PSA (VII.A) MK 1, RL Tracer Mk 1, Tracer SPK Mk VII.T and SPG (VII.G) Mk 1Z. I worked at the Royal Ordnance factory (ROF) at Spennymoor. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: DC Defence Industries, Brownsburgh, Quebec, CANADA. Solid Case, .303inch. Custom was when the boys used these parachutes successfully it was usual for them to send a letter of thanks and a present to whoever had packed the parachute as the girls would have their name and address inside the package. I listened to Vera Lynne and Tommy Handley who's catchphrase was 'Ta Ta for now (TTFN)'. SMI Societa Metallurgica Italiana, Campo Tizzoro, ITALY. Prior to the formation of Kynoch Ltd (see later entry) it was known to have produced .303 cartridges in: GEVELOT Gevelot & Gaupillat Freres, Paris, FRANCE. POF Pakistan Ordnance Factory, Rawalpindi, PAKISTAN. The MG monogram was changed to MF in 1949 which was used until 1962. After ROF I worked for C.I.E.M.E. Used code U from 1939 1961 and SAM thereafter. County Durham, Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded .303 cartridges: Ball, Mk 7 for 1914 1917 military contracts, Ball, Mk 7Z ( American WW2 Contract Pattern ). This fortress must have been of great strength, for it stood on a height above the River Wear; many coins, urns, altars and pieces of Roman pottery have been found, as well as the remains of a hypocaust of the heating system. US Lend Lease production for the UK was 1,196,706 No 4 rifles whereas the total British wartime production of this rifle was 2,021,913. 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