Land bought by Brunner Mond.

Brunner Mond bought the site to adapt the production nitrogen to the manufacture of fertilizers as their main priority. Brunner Mond developed the site as a subsidary called Synthetic Ammonia & Nirtates Ltd.

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Edward George

Of the three farms bought, The Grange is the best known. But was another Hilltop Farm which might have been adjacent to the N.E.R Port Clarence branch. In the recently published "The Industrial Railways & locomotives of County Durham" (Industrial Railway Society 2006 ) pages 243/4 there is a description & photograph of an 0-4-0 ST locomotive at the National Projectile Factory Birtley. Originally built as a broad gauge locomotive for the South Devon Railway passing to the Great Western Railway in 1876 she was rebuilt to standard gauge in 1892. She then was sold to industry and taken over by the Ministry of Munitions. Between June 1919 and December 1919 she was sent to the Ministry of Munitions at Hilltop Farm Billingham. In the photograph she is called Lark and numbered 9. 23/01/2008 15:42:34






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