ROF Bridgend, (Filling Factory No. 2), located in Bridgend, South Wales, was one of the largest of sixteen World War II, UK government-owned, Royal Ordnance...
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In the Second World War, Bridgend had a prisoner of war (POW) camp at Island Farm and a large munitions factory (ROF Bridgend – known as the "Admiralty")...
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open for production after the end of World War II; and, together with ROF Bridgend (Filling Factory No. 2), would replace the Royal Filling Factory located...
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Llanishen (redirect from ROF Cardiff)
With the development of ROF Bridgend, a Royal Ordnance Factory, ROF Cardiff was opened in 1940 to take the explosives from Bridgend and produce tank, anti-tank...
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List of Royal Ordnance Factories (category Explosive ROFs)
No. 20 ROF Brackla Bridgend, Wales Filling Factory Filling Factory No. 11 ROF Bridgend Bridgend, Wales Filling Factory Filling Factory No. 2 ROF Bridgwater...
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ROF Chorley (Filling Factory No. 1) ROF Bridgend (Filling Factory No. 2) The other filling factories were: ROF Glascoed (Filling Factory No. 3) ROF Rotherwas...
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Brackla (category Bridgend)
service to ROF 53 and afterwards to the trading estate. The station closed in the early 1960s. There is an ongoing investigation by Bridgend Borough Council...
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Royal Arsenal (category Engineering ROF)
Arsenal's Filling Factory with one at ROF Chorley and another at ROF Bridgend, but it was soon realised that many more ROFs would be needed. Just over forty...
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being Waterton, Bridgend, and North Road and incorporating a retail park in Waterton. It was built on the site of the former ROF Bridgend, on which South...
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Tondu (category Villages in Bridgend County Borough)
position, some distance from a built-up area and only four miles from ROF Bridgend. This involved Tondu with some very important war work, including the...
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Ewenny Pottery (category Bridgend)
permission by the Air Raid Warden. He was however regularly commissioned by ROF Bridgend to make one-off and commemorative pieces, with his son Dai given leave...
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went new to the ROF at Creekmoor, near Poole in Dorset, which built Hispano guns for aircraft. By late 1944 it had been transferred to ROF Llanishen, near...
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to both fighter and bomber aircraft. Close by, a Royal Ordnance Factory, ROF Pembrey, provided high explosives for Britain's war effort. Both these facilities...
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in trains but less coal as the Royal Navy was now generally oil powered. ROF Glascoed munitions and armaments factory was served by the Coleford, Monmouth...
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A38 to Highbridge River Parrett ROF Bridgwater...
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