During the First World War demand for munitions soared and sections of the British landscape were dedicated to vast factories. An area of 35.5 acres in Hackney Marshes was taken to build the National Projectile Factory. Click on the image to see the extensive railway used to transport materials around the site. Little remains of the factory today, but it is immortalised in a painting by Anna Airy at the Imperial War Museum.
Built in 1917 to repair ammunition boxes and cartridges, this factory covered almost 13 acres of Newport docklands. A twin factory was built at Dagenham Dock.The town of Gretna was built to provide housing for the workers of the UK’s largest cordite factory, built by the Ministry of Munitions in direct response to the Shell Crisis of 1915. At its peak the factory produced 800 tons of cordite a week – more than all the other munitions plants in Britain combined.
This picture shows St James’ Park, but not as you would recognise it today. The lake was drained so that reflection from the water would not attract enemy aircraft towards Buckingham Palace and Whitehall. Temporary government buildings were built in the park and lake basin to house the civil service, which had almost doubled in size.
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