Old Photograph Army Engineers Ardeer Scotland

Old photograph of Army Engineers in Ardeer in the parish of Stevenston in North Ayrshire, Scotland. The Ardeer peninsula was the site of a massive dynamite manufacturing plant built by Alfred Bernhard Nobel. Having scoured the country for a remote location to establish his explosive factory, Nobel finally acquired 100 acres from the Earl of Eglinton, and established the British Dynamite Factory in 1871, and went on to create what was described then as the largest explosives factory in the world.



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