WWI - MUNITIONS FACILITIES IN THE UK. Shell production at Chilwell, Nottinghamshire. On 1 July 1918, 134 people were killed in an explosion at the National Shell Filling Factory No. 6 . Over 250 people were injured in the explosion. This tragedy remains the largest number of deaths caused by a single explosion in Britain

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