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The Great War Centenary 1917 - Exhibition

Boomtown - From Front Line to White Lund

At Lancaster City Museum from Saturday 13th May 2017 to Sunday 12th November 2017.
Open Tuesday to Sunday 10am to 5pm (including Mondays in the school summer holidays).
Admission Free. Lancaster City Museum, Market Square, Lancaster, LA1 1HT

Exhibition supported by the Sir John Fisher Foundation, Army Museums Ogilby Trust, Trustees of the King's Own Royal Regiment Museum, Lancaster, and The Friends of Lancaster City Museum. In partnership with Lancashire County Council and Lancaster City Council.

What our visitors are saying about the exhibition.

New! Blasted - Commemorating the Centenary of the White Lund Explosion

	Introduction
	King’s Own in Mesopotamia
	King’s Own on the Western Front
	King's Own Battalions on the Western Front, 1917
	King's Own Battalions at Home, 1917
	The Quartermaster and Supplies
	The Royal Visit, 16th May 1917
	Newspaper report on the Royal Visit to Lancaster and the National Projectile Factory on Caton Road and National Filling Factory at White Lund, May 1917.
	The Home Front
	Lancaster’s war time production
	Keeping it Secret
	National Filling Factory Number 13 Why Here?
	Panoramic View of National Filling Factory Number 13
	Plan of National Filling Factory Number 13
	What happened in NFF No. 13?
	Who worked at NFF No. 13?
	The Fire
	Time Line of the Fire and Explosions 1st October 1917 onwards
	Roll of Honour
	How did people react?
	Help came in from Fire Brigades far and wide…..
	Gallantry
	And it didn’t stop there……
	Photographs of the remaining buildings in 2001
	How did the fire start?
	Acknowledgements
	White Lund and Rievaulx Abbey, North Yorkshire

Report on the White Lund Exploration Day, 30th September 2017 in partnership with the Regional Heritage Centre, Department of History, Lancaster University.

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