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Original Text (Annotation: EPW044504 / 2021771)
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This area taken over, in 1916-1917, by the No.7 ordinance Filling factory based over in Hayes along side the Grand Union Canal. This site here contained upwards of 24 storage concrete silos used to store the ordinance once the shells had been packed with explosives. Brought out here via the GWR railway line as far as Northolt, now South Ruislip station. Then a new rail line was cut from the other side of the GWR line across Victoria Road and then Torcross Road.. Then it crossed a newly made bridge and the line got reduced to 2 foot gauge as it entered Bessingby playing fields (park). '