TQ 57 74. In the late nineteenth century an Explosives Factory was established at Green Street Green to manufacture all varieties of nitrocellulose based smokeless powders. In 1885, John J. Allchin leased a section of Beacon Wood country park for the yearly rent of £4-10 shillings to the E.C.Powder Company Limited, who began manufacturing smokeless gunpowder

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