THE ROYAL NAVAL CORDITE FACTORY-HoltonHeath
This is a view within the nitration house of the nitrocellulose factory. The operator is loading rolls of scrolled paper into the earthenware pans (4 rolls to eack pan). Mixed acid is then run into the pans, the reaction converting the paper into nitrocellulose. From here the nitrated scrolls would be taken to the vat house for boiling to remove remaining acid. Further purification and washing then took place in the pulping & moulding house. From the P&M house the nitrocellulose was piped as a slurry to the mixing house where the nitrocellulose was mixed with nitroglycerine . The first stage of cordite manufacture had begun.