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Here you will find a list of publications, picture postcards and thimbles about the history of explosives, available from the Faversham Society at its Fleur de Lis Heritage Centre in Preston Street, Faversham.

All items can be purchased from the Heritage Centre when you are in Faversham, or you can order them by post.

10-13 Preston Street
Faversham
Kent ME13 8NS UK
Telephone Icon 01795 534542 Fax Icon 01795 533261 Email Icon ticfaversham@btconnect.com

Publications The Faversham Society is a registered charity run by 100% voluntary effort. All profits from sales are ploughed back for its work for the care and conservation of the area and its treasures.

The Society pioneered interest in the history of the UK explosives industry when it saved the Chart Gunpowder Mills, oldest in the world, from the jaws of the bulldozer in 1966 and then restored the surviving mill. Publications There are now working replicas of this in Ballincollig (Co Cork) and Launceston (Tasmania).

The Society was closely associated with the conservation and interpretation of the Oare Gunpowder Works, established just west of Faversham in 1684, closed in 1934, and opened to the public in 2005. Currently it plans to reinstate a second millhouse at Chart Mills.

At the Fleur de Lis Heritage Centre Museum, the Gunpowder Room, features a 15-minute film tracing the history of the local industry.

Faversham Society publications

Faversham Papers Series

Papers (Number and Title)	Price	P&P
No. 4 The Faversham Gunpowder Industry and its Development (Arthur Percival)	£1.95	£1.00
No. 27 Gunpowder Terminology and Incorporation (Edward M Patterson)	£1.95	£1.00
No. 39 Oare Gunpowder Works (Wayne Cocroft) (joint publication with RCHME)	£2.95	£1.00
No. 42 Gunpowder Manufacture at Faversham: Oare & Marsh Factories (E. M. Patterson)	£1.95	£1.00
No. 43. Black Powder Manufacture in Cumbria (Edward M. Patterson)	£2.95	£1.00
No. 58. Guns, Gunpowder & Saltpetre (Ronald D. Crozier)	£3.45	£1.00
No. 84 Faversham Gunpowder Personnel Register 1573-1840 (Raymond Godfrey and Arthur Percival) -110pp - £5.95	£4.95	£1.00

A5 Short Guides

Title	Price	P&P
Chart Gunpowder Mills (Faversham Society)	£0.20	£0.20
Faversham Gunpowder Factories: What Survives (Arthur Percival)	£0.50	£0.20

Other publications

Title	Price	P&P
Black Powder Manufacturing, Testing & Optimising (Ian von Maltitz)	£13.95	£1.50
Chemistry of Explosives (Jacqueline Akhavan)	£24.95	£2.50
Copperas (Tim Allen)	£13.95	£1.00
Dangerous Energy: The Archaeology of Gunpowder & Military Explosives Manufacture (Wayne Cocroft)	£45.00	£3.50
Damnable Inventions: Chilworth Gunpowder & the Paper Mills of the Tillingbourne (Glenys & Alan Crocker)	£6.50	£1.50
Dartford Gunpowder Mills (Brian Philp)	£1.00	£0.75
Davington Light Railway [served the Faversham high explosives works] (M. M. Taylor)	new edition soon
East India Company's Arsenals & Manufactories (Young)	£14.40	£16.00
Eprouvettes (illustrated history of early gunpowder testing devices) (R. T. W. Kempers)	£24.95	£3.95
Firework Book (Gunpowder in Medieval Germany)	£9.95	£1.25
Great Explosion at Faversham, 2 April 1916 (Arthur Percival)	£2.95	£0.50
Great Works at Weedon 1804-1816 (Beryl Williams)	£15.00	£2.50
Gretna’s Secret War (Gordon L. Routledge)	£7.95	£0.75
Guide to the Chilworth Gunpowder Mills (Glenys Crocker)	£0.80	£0.40
Gunpowder (Jack Kelly)	£14.99	£1.00
Gunpowder Industry, The (Glenys Crocker)	£2.95	£0.80
Gunpowder Mills, Dartmoor (Alan Brunton)	£1.50	£0.50
Gunpowder Mills: Documents of the 17th & 18th centuries (ed Glenys Crocker)	£15.00	£2.00
Gunpowder Mills Gazeteer (Glenys Crocker)	£2.25	£0.75
Gunpowder Mills of Fernilee (Joyce Winfield)	£4.99	£0.75
Gunpowder to Guided Missiles: Ireland’s War Industries (George D. Kelleher	£25.00	£3.25
History of Greek Fire & Gunpowder (J. R. Partington)	£15.95	£2.00
Low Wood Gunpowder Company: its inception & early growth 1798-1808 (Alice Palmer)	£5.95	£1.50
Old Gunpowder Factory at Glynneath (Tom Pritchard, Jack Evans and Sydney Johnson)	£2.50	£1.00
Peril in the Powder Mills [history of the US powder industry, to which Faversham experts contributed] (Anne Kelly Lane and David McMahon)	£14.95	£1.50
Powderbarge W.D. (David Wood)	£3.50	£0.75
Roslin Gunpowder Mills ( CD-Rom) (Winne Stevenson and Veronica Meikle)	£9.95	£0.95
Royal Gunpowder Mills, Waltham Abbey: An Illustrated Tour	£1.00	£0.35

Picture postcards

Code and Title

PP11 Chart Mills before restoration (drawn by Jack Salmon ATD)

PP12 Chart Mills: isometric drawing of machinery by John Reynolds ARIBA

PP13 Packing Canisters, Oare Works, c. 1925

PP14 Powder Barges, Oare Works, c. 1925

PP15 Canister Making, Oare Works, c. 1925

PP16 Cotton Powder Company train, c. 1910

PP17 Chart Mills after restoration

PP18 Powder Punt, Marsh Works, c. 1925

PP19 Powder Wagons, Marsh Works, c. 1925

PP20 John Hall & Sons powder advertisement, c. 1890

PP21 Curtis’s & Harvey gunpowder wrapper c 1898

Picture postcards are 25p each. If ordering fewer than 10 and no other accompanying items please add 30p extra for P&P.

Thimbles

Chart Gunpowder Mills c. 1760 £1.95 + £1.00 P&P

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