In message <003401c1eeb5$4a70c400$0a48fea9@mikegill> dated Sun, 28 Apr 2002
13:37:00 +0100 Mike Gill wrote:
>Does anyone know of any references to the advent of powder
>houses/magazines and was it linked to Legislation?
Quoting from _Industrial Gwynedd_ Vol 2 Plateway Press 1997 "Two Powder
Magazines in the Parish of Llanllechid, Bethesda" Dr John Llywelyn Williams
...
"Powder magazines were licensed structures which had to conform to the
requirements laid down in the Gunpowder Act of 1860 and the Explosives Act
of 1875. This required that such buildings be solidly built and protected
with walls of a particular thickness; that the inside be thouroughly dry
which necessitated the lining of the inner walls with wooden planking thus
creating an enclosed inner tinder dry chamber; and finally, that the
explosives had to be separately stored from the detonators, which therefore
required the building of small extensions to house the latter. Powder
magazines were to be open for inspection and were licensed to store only
the prescribed amounts of explosive materials."
Dave
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