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Women workers with shells in Chilwell filling factory 1917 IWM Q 30040
Women workers with shells in Chilwell filling factory 1917 IWM Q 30040

The National Shell Filling Factory, Chilwell, was a World War I United Kingdom Government-owned explosives filling factory. Its formal title was National Filling Factory No. 6. It was located near Chilwell, at that time a village, in Nottinghamshire on the main road from Nottingham to Ashby de la Zouch. During the Great War it filled some 19 million shells with high explosives.

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National Shell Filling Factory, Chilwell
Chetwynd Road, Broxtowe Chilwell

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Chetwynd Road
NG9 5GL Broxtowe, Chilwell
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Women workers with shells in Chilwell filling factory 1917 IWM Q 30040
Women workers with shells in Chilwell filling factory 1917 IWM Q 30040
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