bombs fall on Tudhoe. 1890 Tudhoe Iron Works produced 50,000 tons of steel. Even before the big coal strike of 1926 the collieries had begun to close. Childrens play areas upgraded by the provision of safety surfacing at eight sites. Everyman Theatre opens. 1867 The Black Horse public house built in Tudhoe. The one good road was maintained by tolls collected at turnpike gates. ROF Blackpool; SAA Factory. Population 22,000. Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and The town of Spennymoor, and the villages of Byers Green, Kirk Merrington and Tudhoe, are in the North East of England, situated on high land above the south side of the Wear Valley between the City of Durham and Bishop Auckland. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: Blank, Nitro-cellulose L Canadian Mk 1 (1955 & 1956). 1929 Prince of Wales visits Spennymoor. Subsequently became part of BAE Systems Land and Armaments business. New Railway station built at Spennymoor. Although schemes were inaugurated to relieve the gloom nothing could make up for the lack of steady employment. Solid Case, .303inch. 1944 Christmas Eve a stray German VI Flying Bomb exploded in Tudhoe Cricket Club field at 6 am D-Day, 6th June. Later, Binchester became one of the vills of the Earl of Northumberland who held it until 1420 when it passed to the Nevilles who finally forfeited it with other lands in 1569. Known to have manufactured .303 cartridges in: GKB or K George Kynoch, Birmingham, UNITED KINGDOM. In 1963 changes were indicated and Durham County Council and then then Ministry of Housing and Local Government agreed that Spennymoor should be a new growth point and that town centre redevelopment should take place; that the Tudhoe ironworks site should be reclaimed; that a major highway scheme should be put into hand; that the Royal Ordnance Factory Industrial Estate should be extended and that the Green Lane Industrial Estate should be developed. This factory manufactured cartridges for use by the British Army in India as well as the Indian Army. We had evacuees in Spennymoor, these were from Gateshead and people were given 8/- a week to keep them in food, which today is 40p! Most countries do not, unlike Britain, identify the bullet by the headstamp, so such colour markings are often the only way to identify the bullet in use. 21. Tracer, armour piercing and incendiary cartridges were adopted by the British Government during 1915, explosive bullets having been approved for service in 1916. MW Small Arms Ammunition Factory No 6, Welchpool, AUSTRALIA. RTS Richard Threlfall and Sons, UNITED KINGDOM. These soft nosed and hollow pointed bullets were considered however to be in contravention of the St Petersburg Declaration and the Hague Convention, in 1903 they were withdrawn from active service and were afterwards to be used solely for target practice. POF Pakistan Ordnance Factory, Rawalpindi, PAKISTAN. Manufactured .303 cartridges with this headstamp January 1924 to February 1925. Known to have produced .303 ball cartridges. 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. This cupro-nickle jacketed bullet, produced at the Dum Dum ammunition factory in India, had an exposed lead nose which gave rapid expansion on impact and therefore greater wounding effect when it hit a body. 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. U = Utah Ordnance Plant - Salt Lake City, Utah. I was chosen along with 2 other girls to visit Goosepool Aerodrome (now Durham/Tees Valley International Airport), where the Canadian. It is impossible to walk between the rows of cottages without being convinced that the surface of the ground is to a large extent composed of the overflowing contents of these midden boxes. The comparative isolation of its moorland situation ended too with the opening of a branch railway from the mainline at Ferryhill in 1876. In 1918 this factory had the capacity to produce about 5.4 million rounds per month. An era of prosperity dawned in the 1860s and 1870s when the miners were earning 1 per day. 1695 Gunpowder was also stored at Upnor Castle (later the Upnor Armaments Supply Depot) from at least as early as 1695. This cartridge is interchangeable with the .303 British cartridge. Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. ROF Queniborough; Filling Factory No. 1968 Bessemer Park Housing commenced (1,009 houses). ROF Patricroft; M/C Shop Engineering ROF. Royal Small Arms Factory Enfield Factory No 2. Incendiary B Mk 3, B Mk 4Z*, B Mk 6, B Mk 6Z. Nitro-cellulose filled .303 American WW1 Contract Pattern cartridges were produced during the period 1914 1917 as. Mon - Thurs 8:45 - 17:00, Fri 8:45 - 16:30 20. Spennymoor became part of the South West Durham depressed area. 1855 The Ordnance Office was dissolved in 1855. Royal Ordnance Factory. MKEMakina ve Kimya Endustrisi, Kuruma, TURKEY. Smart and Brown opens on Ordnance Factory site. Lost in the Blackout. VPT Valtion Patruunatehdas, Lapua, FINLAND. 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. By Barry W. Gracia, An extensive website on the Vickers machine gun, Harrington Aviation Museum DropZone Newsletter, Identification Manuals Nos 1, 2, 3, and 4 on the .303 British Service Cartridge. More than 17,000 women worked at the factory, and Ms Scott said . International Bowls Championships held in Town. From 1918 to 1950 it had its own parliamentary constituency, from 1950 to 1974 it was in the Durham constituency and from 1974 to 1983 in the North West Durham constituency. The headstamp code G, denoting manufacturer, should not be confused with G as in GIV indicating a tracer cartridge. c 1948. Ammunition was made at Woolwich long before the adoption of the .303 cartridge in 1889. 1992 Jubilee Park wins Best Park in Town Award in Northumbria in Bloom Competition. I was given a badge for helping to raise money for the war effort. Initial Radway Green production used a single arrow as the headstamp code and this was replaced in 1942 by the RG code. El Alamein. 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. 581.38 KB. 1904 Tudhoe Rugby Club defunct. people who designed and built them. 1972 Cambridge Theatre/Cinema destroyed by fire. On top of these economic misfortunes came the terrible explosion at Tudhoe Colliery in 1882 when 37 lives were lost. TW = Twin Cities Ordnance Plant - Minneapolis, Minnesota. Other methods include colouring of part or the whole of the cartridge case. 1913 Queen Mary visits the town. Beretta Group owns now the Tikka arms brand. Inside, the most interesting feature is the screen, a typical example of late-17th century work. 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. R..W Rudge Whitworth Ltd., Tyseley, UNITED KINGDOM. There are entire streets without any closet accommodation whatever and in its stead open wooden boxes are placed opposite nearly every doorway for the reception of the excrement, ashes and other refuse; an arrangement which, besides being revolting to every sense of decency, is stated to be offensive in the extreme, especially in hot weather. 13 Oct 2022 - Notice to Royal Ordnance Pension Scheme ("The Scheme") Members. UT = Utah Ordnance Plant - Salt Lake City, Utah. ROF Bishopton; Explosive ROF (3 factories). Call Us: 01388 815276 These appalling conditions continued into the 20th century and even by 1920 less than 10% of the town houses had water closets. ROF Featherstone; Filling Factory No. The later Mark 6 and 7 incendiary rounds could also be used in this role if required. Wesleyan Church opened. This round had a nitro-cellulose powder charge with a 175 grain boat tailed, streamline, jacketed bullet having a muzzle velocity of 2550 feet per second. Spennymoor Circus and Novely Hippodrome opened. The coal industry has been replaced by manufacturers of consumer goods, and factories of Electrolux, Thorn Lighting and Black and Decker were established. Cartridges known to have been manufactured in: MEN Maschinenfabrik Elisenhutte, Nassau, WEST GERMANY. There has been a film made about these men "The guinea pigs". This mark of bullet remained the standard ball round for the remainder of the .303 cartridges service life. 1964 Black and decker open factory at Green Lane. 1916 Town Hall built at a cost of 18,000. Known to have produced Ilmavoimat Konekivaarin Patruuna Kal 7.70 machine gun cartridges, which are interchangeable with the .303 cartridge in: W or WRA Winchester Repeating Arms Co., New Haven, Conn., UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 1942 1942 1943 1944 Tikkakoski Arsenal - Finland Tikkakoski was the first private arms manufacturer in Finland. HN Royal Ordnance Factory, Hirwaun, South Wales, UNITED KINGDOM. British military contracts 1914 1917, Ball, Mk 7Z (Canadian Pattern). Cases were supplied by MJ, Ball Mk 7 (loaded into cases with BVI head stamp). Cost 87,000. Known to have produced .303 cartridges 1941 1945 in: RL Royal Laboratory, Woolwich Arsenal, Kent, UNITED KINGDOM. The effect of the closure was relieved by the sinking of the Dean and Chapter colliery in 1904, but the reliance on this one basic industry was to persist until the 1960s. The ROF Regiment were stationed in Spennymoor factory. It became G. Kynoch & Co Ltd in 1884 and by then was manufacturing metallic ammunition. Floral waistcoats and ribboned hats were worn on these highly colourful occasions. Despite the high levels of unemployment, the housing situation at last took an upturn in the 1930s when the Urban District Council began to use its wider powers to take action on unfit houses. I remember Tudhoe Colliery being bombed. The Rise of Industry CHINA is known to have produced some 7.7mm rimmed ammunition for use in captured Japanese machine guns from 1945 onwards. 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. Royal Small Arms Factory Factory No 2. Known to have produced nitro-cellulose filled .303 cartridges in: 174 gr Full jacket boat tail bulleted ammunition, 150 and 174 gr jacketed soft point sporting ammunition. Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded .303 cartridges in: W-W Winchester Western Division of Olin Industries, New Haven, Conn., UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Royal Ordnance Factory Leeds, first opened as a munitions factory in December 1915 and opened as an ROF in January 1936, was one of a number of Royal Ordnance Factories created at the start of the Second World War . 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. MQ Small Arms Ammunition Factory No 5, Rocklea, AUSTRALIA. Martha Liddle, J.P., was the first person from Spennymoor to be awarded the M.B.E. My husband worked in the mines with Bevin Boys. Types of Royal Ordnance Factories (ROFs) 1. I listened to Vera Lynne and Tommy Handley who's catchphrase was 'Ta Ta for now (TTFN)'. 1898 North Eastern Hotel destroyed by fire. 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). M Nobel Explosives Ltd., Manchester, UNITED KINGDOM. Production of ammunition ceased in 1944. 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). This is an insight into the Aycliffe Royal Ordnance Factory, ROF 59, (1941-1945) and the 'Aycliffe Angels'. For any other comments, please Contact Us. 2005 BAe Land Systems Munitions and Ordnance employs about 1650 people at sites including the former RO sites at Birtley, Bishopton, Bridgwater, Chorley, Glascoed, Radway Green and Shrivenham. .303 cartridges known to have been produced with the Blackpole headstamped cases from 1941 to 1945 are: Cartridge Rifle Grenade, Ballistite H Mk 1Z. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: DC Defence Industries, Brownsburgh, Quebec, CANADA. do not work properly without it enabled. They had a goat mascot named Monty who ate the vegetables which the lads were growing, "Dig For Victory". E or EB Eley Brothers, Edmonton, London, UNITED KINGDOM. We were then taken to the canteen for lunch, which consisted of battered spam and chips. It initially had a small boxer type primer and was officially designated Cartridge, S.A., Ball, Magazine Rifle, Mark 1.C. Penny Rate Product 23,000. 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. Penny Rate Product 303. During WW1 Eley produced in excess of 209 Million .303 Mk 7 cartridges. 1973 Spennymoor Town Council created a Successor Council. 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. Brighter Days 1941 Royal Ordnance Factory opens. Royal Arsenal Factory No 1. K5 Imperial Chemical Industries Kynoch factory at Kidderminster, Worcestershire., UNITED KINGDOM. G18F1 or C18F1 Government Cartridge Factory No 1, Blackheath, Staffs., UNITED KINGDOM. List of sites of Royal Ordnance Factories. This was confirmed by experience gained in the Chitral and Tirah expeditions of 1897/98 on the North West Frontier of India where the round nose ball round compared poorly against the .303 inch Dum Dum rounds specially issued in 1897. 1985 There were 12 Royal Ordnance Factories still in operation. BLANCH J Blanch & Sons of Fenchurch St, London, UNITED KINGDOM. Known to have manufactured .303 cartridges in: MG / MF2 Small Arms Ammunition Factory No 2, Gordon Street, Footscray, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA. In 1963 too there came the first private building developments to take place since back in the days of the 19th century colliery owners. This firm was first formed by George Kynoch at Witton in 1862 as a manufacturer of percussion caps. 1984 Middlestone Moor Community Centre built. JAPAN is known to have manufactured nitro-cellulose loaded Imperial Japanese Army Year Type 89 Machine Gun ammunition, which is interchangeable with the .303 cartridge, without any headstamp codes in: JAPAN is also known to have manufactured nitro-cellulose Imperial Japanese Navy Year Type 92 Machine Gun ammunition, which is interchangeable with the .303 cartridge, at their Aichi Naval Arsenal, Toyokawa Naval Arsenal and Yokosuka Naval Arsenal in the following configurations, SPAIN manufactured .303 ammunition and used it on a limited scale during and after the Civil War of 1936 39. After ROF I worked for C.I.E.M.E. 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. This factory made and marked cases but filling was carried out at the Royal Ordnance Factory Swynnerton, Staffs. ROF Aycliffe; Filling Factory No. These houses were, unusually, semi-detached and arranged in a chequerboard layout, very much in contrast to the dreary terraces that were then the standard. Known to have produced 7.7 x 56R ball cartridges, which are interchangeable with the .303 cartridge. It stands above the Wear Valley approximately seven miles south of Durham. 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. 1807 Small arms manufacture moved to the Royal Manufactory of Small Arms at Lewisham. This became the Royal Small Arms Factory (Birmingham). Up to 1800 the moor remained largely barren and the few roads across it were dangerous. Production gap from Jan 1921 to March 1921 after the factory was leased to the Government Known to have produced during 1920-21 the .303 cartridges in: CP Crompton Parkinson Ltd, Guiseley, Yorkshire, UNITED KINGDOM, although filling took place at Doncaster (see below). Do Hirtenberg Patronenfabrik factory at Dordrecht, NETHERLANDS. This factory was part of the 1939-45 war emergency expansion plan. Over the next 2 years about 40000 was invested in re-equipping the factory[3]. It is known to have produced .303 cartridges in: Ball, Cordite Mk 2, Mk 2 Special, Mk 6 and Mk 7. 1871 Tower Brewery built at Tudhoe Grange. 22. SR = Royal Ordnance Factory - Spennymoor, United Kingdom. Spennymoor, United Kingdom (1913-1945). 1994 Town wins National Allotment Society Waterlow Trophy. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: TM..B Pirotechnia di Bologna, ITALY. The Woolwich site apart from containing all the supportive facilities for the research, design, development, inspection and testing of ammunition also included an extensive range complex on the Plumpstead Marshes. A nursery school was opened in the park to look after children while mothers did war work. VE Cartoucherie de Valence, FRANCE. 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. Her advance guards clashed with some of Douglas men near Ferryhill and chased them back to the bridge at Croxdale (Sunderland Bridge). By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded .303 cartridges in: Cartridge Rifle Grenade, H Mk 7Z, M11 and M12, FNM Fabrica Nacional de Municoes e Armas Legeiras, Moscavide, PORTUGAL. My thanks to John Kindred for clarification on the monograms used on Australian small arms ammunition. Similar jacketed hollow point bullets were used in the Mark IV and V rounds. Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Three closed in 1924 and the strike saw another two fail. The USA should therefore, along with Australia, India and the United Kingdom, be considered as one of the major producers of both .303 rifles and ammunition. 1953 St Pauls Church damaged by fire. Known to have manufactured 7.7 x 56R bulleted blanks, which are interchangeable with the .303 cartridge. Royal Arsenal Factory No 1. ROF Blackburn. The Spennymoor ammunition was then filled at ROF Aycliffe. King Street Council School built. Known to have produced .303 ball cartridges. ROF Steeton; SAA Factory No. In the next few years only between one and four houses were built in any year and in 1929 the housing situation was still reported as acute which, from the recorded facts, seems self-evident. 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