2001 Memorial to two Hurricane pilots killed in aircrash at Tudhoe in 1942 unveiled at York Hill Cemetery. Incendiary bombs burn down Tudhoe Colliery Co-op. Martha Liddle, J.P., was the first person from Spennymoor to be awarded the M.B.E. The Rise of Industry 1954 Middlestone Moor housing estate commenced. In 1963 too there came the first private building developments to take place since back in the days of the 19th century colliery owners. 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. This cartridge is interchangeable with the .303 British cartridge. V.E.Day. The cases were made by BSA for Maxim machine guns in the 1890s. I listened to Vera Lynne and Tommy Handley who's catchphrase was 'Ta Ta for now (TTFN)'. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: Blank, Nitro-cellulose L Canadian Mk 1 (1955 & 1956). 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. 1934 to 1939 Many new Royal Ordnance Factories were built to enhance the capacity of the Royal Arsenal, Royal Gunpowder Factory and the Royal Small Arms Factory which, being close to London, were susceptible to being bombed[6]. TW = Twin Cities Ordnance Plant - Minneapolis, Minnesota. Dedication of Venerable Bede Mission Church. 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. TW = Twin Cities Ordnance Plant - Minneapolis, Minnesota. BE or BE Royal Ordnance Factory, Blackpole, Worcester, UNITED KINGDOM. High Street, SIP - Royal Ordnance Pension Scheme - 2022. Identification Manuals Nos 1, 2, 3, and 4 on the .303 British Service Cartridge by B.A. P or PC Peters Cartridge Co., Kings Mills, Ohio, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 1818 The work of the Lewisham establishment was transferred to Enfield. 1759 Government purchase of the privately-owned gunpowder mill at Faversham and the establishment there of the Royal Powder Mill. Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded .303 cartridges in: 180 & 215 gr jacketed soft point sporting ammunition, RR or RRCO Ross Rifle Co, Montreal, CANADA. D, DF, N or S Indian Government Ammunition Factory, Dum Dum, Calcutta, INDIA. D Dominion Cartridge Co., Brownsberg, Quebec, CANADA. Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded Imperial Japanese Navy Year Type 92 Machine Gun ammunition, which is interchangeable with the .303 cartridge in: F or AF or SAAF Small Arms Ammunition Factory, Footscray, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA. Electric lighting for Spennymoor. 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. Although coal-mining continued and the ironworks and engineering businesses were also providing employment, the start of the 20th century saw the start, too, of a long period of depression. Population 22,000. Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded Imperial Japanese Navy Year Type 92 Machine Gun ammunition which is interchangeable with the .303 cartridge in: ZV Zbrojovka Brno, Brno, CZECHOSLOVAKIA. 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. Call Us: 01388 815276 c 1948. ROF Steeton; SAA Factory No. Small Arms Ammunition - This type of factory was, in essence, an Engineering factory which specialised in the production of small arms shell casings. Kenmirs Furniture Factory and the old Arcadia Cinema were both destroyed by fire. The name Binchester is the usual Saxon corruption or adaptation of the Roman site name. 299.06 KB. Copyright of content contributed to this Archive rests with the author. Later, effective tracer and incendiary composition operations were also carried out at Witton. 1909 Pavilion Roller Skating Rink (The Rink) built in Clarence Street. ROF Aycliffe; Filling Factory No. The origin of the name remains somewhat uncertain some believe it to be derived from the Latin Spina which means a thorn (possibly from the Roman influence at Binchester) and Mor which was the Anglo-Saxon word for a moor. Royal Powder Mill Factory No 31. Incendiary Buckingham (VII.B), B Mk 1, B Mk 2Z, B Mk 4,B Mk 4. The three historic state-controlled munitions factories at Woolwich, Enfield, and Waltham Abbey were taken over as National Factories were controlled by the Army Board at the outbreak of the war, under the Master General of the Ordnance. We used to shelter under the stairs during air raids. Spennymoor Health Centre opened. Email: info@spennymoor-tc.gov.uk. 1966 Bus Station and Parkwood Precinct opened. After ROF I worked for C.I.E.M.E. Mr. Leslie. DI Defence Industries, Verdun, CANADA. On nitro-cellulose loaded .303 Mk 7z Ball cartridges made by FNM of Moscavide, PORTUGAL. 1929 Prince of Wales visits Spennymoor. These men, early industrial workers, wore their hair long and on these gala days it flowed freely over their shoulders instead of, as usually was the case, being tied in curls. The moor itself comes into the record in 1615 as the result of a general muster on the moor of all men able to bear arms within the bishopric, between the ages of 15 and 60; the gathering amounted to 8,320 (Fordyce). This is a list of Royal Ordnance Factories . In 1935 the .303 O Mark 1 Observing round was introduced for use in machine guns. 1951 Population 19,740. In 1918 this factory had the capacity to produce about 5.4 million rounds per month. In WWII Explosives factories were established at[9]: WWII: 20 Filling factories were planned but only 16 were built including[11] [12]: WWII: Other Filling factories were devoted to Small Arms Ammunition: Grace's Guide web site design is Copyright 2021 by Grace's Guide Ltd. It may be of some interest to learn that during the First World War more than 7,000 million Mk 7 ball cartridges were produced by British factories alone. The Manor of Merrington belonged successively to the priors, monks and dean and chapter of Durham Cathedral. 1906 Birmingham Small Arms Co took over the Royal Small Arms Factory at Sparkbrook[5]. This ammunition is known to have been commercially exported by the manufacturer post 1950 to Afghanistan and India. 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. Her advance guards clashed with some of Douglas men near Ferryhill and chased them back to the bridge at Croxdale (Sunderland Bridge). Cartridges known to have been manufactured in: MEN Maschinenfabrik Elisenhutte, Nassau, WEST GERMANY. Originally colour markings arose from the need to make a quick visual check of the arrangements in a machine gun belt and they are now almost universally applied. Royal Ordnance Factory. RTS Richard Threlfall and Sons, UNITED KINGDOM. Wesleyan Church opened. EGYPT is known to have produced .303 ball ammunition at the Government Arsenal Shoubra, United Arab Republic and Factory No 10 at Alexandria, Egypt. Town Hall, 1853 Tudhoe Ironworks established. Yokosuka Naval Arsenal, JAPAN. ROF Aycliffe; ROF 59 (Filling Factory No. My Father worked at the factory. 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. do not work properly without it enabled. Temple, Collectors Cartridge Catalogue No 29 by Conjay Arms Company Ltd, Whitneys Heritage, A Study of Cartridges Manufactured by The Colonial Ammunition Company in New Zealand. 1934 Prince of Wales visits the Town for a second time. U = Utah Ordnance Plant - Salt Lake City, Utah. The first coal from Merrington Colliery was brought up in 1841; a pit with a chequered career which only prospered under the partnership of L.M Reay and R.S. This company was first formed in 1862 and manufactured percussion caps. 1989 Byers Green Village Hall extended and refurbished. ROF Blackpole; SAA Factory No. bombs fall on Tudhoe. 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! This factory manufactured cartridges for use by the British Army in India as well as the Indian Army. Royal Small Arms Factory Enfield Factory No 2. Grace's Guide To British Industrial History, https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/index.php?title=Royal_Ordnance&oldid=1277361, Creative 1938 Reconstruction of Tudhoe Mill Sewerage Works. For any other comments, please Contact Us. IMPERIAL Canadian Industries Ltd, Montreal, CANADA and Plattsburg, NY, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. When he was finally attacked and overcome, the church roof was destroyed but the building remained as one of most interesting Norman churches in the county until 1850 when it was almost wholly rebuilt although retaining the form of its predecessor. Town Hall refurbished. 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. . 13 Oct 2022 - Notice to Royal Ordnance Pension Scheme ("The Scheme") Members. FNT Fabrica Nacional de Espana, Palencia, SPAIN. In addition to the .303 cartridges manufactured for Egypt this company also manufactured nitro-cellulose loaded 7.7 x 56R cartridges, which are interchangeable with the .303 round and are known to have been produced in: Incendiary Armour Piercing with Thermite filling, Incendiary Armour Piercing with Phosphorus filling, C.. Pirotecnico di Capua, ITALY. CAC Colonial Ammunition Co., Melbourne, AUSTRALIA. 1939 Outbreak of World War II. text of this web site is available under the Creative As he was being transferred from Italy to Germany he escaped by jumping from the train and for this among many other things he received the Military Medal. Amongst the many hundreds of guns produced during his administration, which were at least 50% more powerful than the guns they superseded, not a single failure or accident of any kind occurred. 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. 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. The propellant interests being concentrated mainly at Ardeer within the Nobel Division of ICI. 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. On explosive anti Zeplin cartridges. Three closed in 1924 and the strike saw another two fail. Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded .303 cartridges in: 180 gr jacketed soft point sporting ammunition, 150 gr jacketed soft point sporting ammunition. Known to have manufactured .303 cartridges in: K4 Imperial Chemical Industries Kynoch factory at Yeading, Hayes, Middlesex, UNITED KINGDOM. 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. 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. 3. Modern Spennymoor was built on mining and has its origins with the sinking of the Wittered pit in 1839. To see the 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. Childrens play areas upgraded by the provision of safety surfacing at eight sites. The only portion of the common that was left was a small plot reserved for the use of a spring of water. 1887 Renamed the Royal Ordnance Factories, control passed to the financial secretary's Civil Department. Former Essoldo/Tivoli cinema building destroyed by fire. Mr Hosie who was chauffeur for ROF at the time was our driver. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: Short Range Practice ( New Zealand Pattern), 215 gr RNSP, 180 gr PSP, 180 gr HP, 174 gr PSP, 150 gr PSP, 130 gr PSP and 150 gr HP Sporting Ammunition, Mks 4 and 5 Big Game Exploder Sporting Ammunition. Known to have produced both ball and blank .303 cartridges. Monogram in use 1940 to 1945. This page was last edited on 27 May 2022, at 11:53. 1918 World War l ended in victory for the Allies. 1887 Report by Lord Morley's committee into the Manufacturing Departments of the Army, which consisted of 4 establishments: Woolwich, Waltham Abbey, Enfield and Birmingham; the committee made a number of recommendations for reorganisation, having taken account of modern industrial practices[4]. Dean & Chapter andMainsforth Collieries opened. I worked at the Royal Ordnance factory (ROF) at Spennymoor. Penny Rate Product 239. 1807 Small arms manufacture moved to the Royal Manufactory of Small Arms at Lewisham. Tudhoe and Spennymoor Local History Society founded. Explosive bullets were not produced in the UK after about 1933 due to the relatively small amount of explosive that could be contained in the bullet limiting their effectiveness, their role being successfully fulfilled by the use of Mark 6 and 7 incendiary bullets which were also of a less complicated construction. This was very interesting there of course was a special way of doing this that it opened properly when required. Known to have manufactured .303 cartridges in: MH Small Arms Ammunition Factory No 3, Hendon, AUSTRALIA. The Captain without thinking shouted 'shoot the bugger' and this is what the lads did and were in serious trouble. 1875 Croxdale Colliery explosion 1 miner killed. Royal Small Arms Factory Factory No 2. RH Raleigh Cycle Co, Nottingham, UNITED KINGDOM. RA Raufoss Ammunisjonsfabrikker, Raufoss, NORWAY. When operational, the Bishopton site was the Royal Ordnance's primary manufacturer of propellants for gun and rocket systems and around 75% of the . 1962 Pavilions added to Merrington Lane playing fields. When we arrived at Goosepool Mr Hosie was not allowed to enter the airport as it was strictly guarded. VPT Valtion Patruunatehdas, Lapua, FINLAND. 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 . My thanks to John Kindred for clarification on the monograms used on Australian small arms ammunition. 1990 Town Council wins Waterlow Trophy for fourth year. In 1930 the coke ovens which remained on the ironworks site were only working intermittently. 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. 1940 1949. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Used the same annulus colour coding as United Kingdom for ammunition supplied under contract to the British Government during both the First and Second World Wars. This company represents the only new commercial ammunition manufacturer put into business by the Government as a result of demand in the 1914- 18 war. Penny Rate Product 18,500. Archive List > United Kingdom > Wearside and County Durham, Submitted by Christine Rome at Spennymoor Library on behalf of Elizabeth Hodgson (ne Monaghan). Royal Small Arms Factory Enfield Factory No 2. ROF Brackla; Filling Factory No. Woolwich Arsenal, of which the Royal Laboratory was only a part, is situated in South East London on the River Thames. When cap annulus colours were first introduced in 1918 the Ball Mk VIIz had the annulus coloured black while the Ball Mk VII had the entire cap area coloured purple. Both firms are believed to have manufactured .303 Blackpowder Mk 2 Ball Cartridges, L-E or U Remington UMC, Bridgeport, Conn., UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. We were introduced to several top men who told us our visit had been delayed due to various reasons, because of raids and moonlight. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: Armour Piercing W Mk 1, W Mk 1 Special and W Mk 1Z, Cartridge Rifle Grenade, Cordite H Mk 2, H Mk 4 and H Mk 4Z, Incendiary B Mk 6, B Mk 6Z, B Mk 7 and B Mk 7Z. 1996 Tony Blair, M.P., opens the new Page Bankroad bridge. This page has been archived and is no longer updated. 1787 Purchase of the powdermill at Waltham Abbey which was named the Royal Gunpowder Factory. This factory was set up as part of the 1939-45 war emergency expansion plan. 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. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: Tracer G Mk 2,G Mk 3, G Mk 4, G Mk 5 and G Mk 6. http://www.durhamatwar.org.uk/material/569/, 1837 Spennymoors firstRailway Station built, 1839 Shaft sunk at Whitworth Park Colliery, 1841- Spennymoor National School (Dysons) opened. They used the MF monogram May 1926 to 1945 and the AF monogram from January 1924 to February 1925. 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). They factories employed 300,000 people and were responsible for producing two-thirds of guns made in the UK and a similar proportion of the ammunition[7]. Chamber pressure however was higher at 20 21 tons per square inch compared to the 19.5 tons per square inch of the Mark VII round. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of My brother-in-law was taken prisoner in Italy. In 1910 the 174 grain pointed Mark VII bullet was adopted and the muzzle velocity was increased to 2440 feet per second. In WWI the Ministry of Munitions took over responsibility for manufacture of explosives (see H. M. Explosive Factories) and for filling of munitions (see National Filling Factories and National Projectile Factories, etc). By the end of 1963 over 1,120 sub-standard houses had been cleared and as many new Council houses built for letting whilst over 400 houses had been improved by grant aid. 1880 Tudhoe Iron Works produced 17,000 tons of iron and 2,000 tons of steel. Spennymoor is a town in County Durham, England. 1973 Spennymoor Town Council created a Successor Council. They had a goat mascot named Monty who ate the vegetables which the lads were growing, "Dig For Victory". 1716 Subsequently the Royal Brass Foundry was established for the manufacture of brass ordnance. 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