Ashton Munitions Explosion brushed metal plaque

This brushed metal commemorative plaque records: This sculpture was designed with considerable help from children at St.Peter's Primary School, Ashton to remember The Ashton Munitions Explosion. At 4.22pm on Wednesday 13 June 1917, 5 tons of TNT exploded at the Hooley Hill Rubber and Chemical Factory on William Street, near to Oxford Street, in Ashton. A plaque is near to the site of the disaster on William Street to commemorate where 46 people were killed and more than 400 were injured with hundreds more made homeless. Many of the killed were children on the way home from school on that fine June afternoon. Recorded plaque organisation: Tameside Metropolitan Borough.

The Ashton Munitions Explosion occurred in 1917 when a factory in Ashton, England, detonated 5 tons of TNT, killing 46 people and injuring over 400, mostly children returning from school.