Hayle Heritage Centre

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The National Explosives Works at Upton Towans, Hayle, was in operation between 1888 and 1920. This talk, by Peter Channon, will go into detail about the history of this amazing site which was created from scratch to develop and produce the then new nitro-based explosive ‘DYNAMITE’; a replacement for Gunpowder as used in mining. Utilizing a completely different ‘chemistry based’  process the site pioneered a safe way to produce DYNAMITE to an industrial scale, eventually contracting to HM Government for…