Alfred Nobel's Dynamite Factory at Ardeer.....

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StewL
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Post by StewL » Mon Jan 23, 2006 1:37 am

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Here's me thinking that living in Oz was the first stage of training for going to hell. :lol: The final stage being the cremation, you know just to get used to the extra heat. :lol:
Looks like we are finally getting a taste of the hot weather here in the west :!:
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camweh
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Post by camweh » Thu Nov 09, 2006 11:52 am

Just a heads up to those interested in the Dynamite Factory at Ardeer.
I'm told it will be featured on the BBC2 TV show "Coast" tonight at 8 o'clock.

How Alfred Nobel created the world's largest explosives factory.
Hughie,
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nancy
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Post by nancy » Thu Nov 09, 2006 10:36 pm

Hi Hughie,just managed to catch the prog,and very good it was too. :)

Cheers Nancy
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DavidWW
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Post by DavidWW » Fri Nov 10, 2006 10:28 am

Personally Ah wisnae impressed, never mind the fact they got some things in Nobel's biography badly wrong, but then that's the genealogist in me. :wink:

And why spend so long looking, relooking, re-relooking, and re-re-relooking at wee red and blue boxes being blown up? Surely once was enough with a quick visit to the result?

Nothing about the frequent explosions at Ardeer that killed many over the years, - the big ones heard miles away, - nor of many other aspects of the site that I'd have hoped that this programme could have included, - the one-legged stool for example that they still have (had?) at the excellent museum on the site ...........

The coverage of the munitions factory at Annan was better.

David
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