On August 21, 1916, at 3.16pm, the first of a series of explosions ripped through a chemical works in the Low Moor area of Bradford.
It was manufacturing picric acid, which can be used in antiseptics and dyes. Indeed, the factory had been supplying Yorkshire’s textile and carpet mills with dyestuffs since 1898. However, by the First World War all production at Low Moor was used to manufacture explosives. In all 40 people died, including six firemen who tackled the resulting blaze. A total of 60 people were reported injured. Around 2,000 homes in south Bradford were damaged, 50 of them so badly they had to be demolished.
The local paper later said the explosion was so severe it shattered every window within a two-mile radius, but at the time the disaster was not widely publicised due to wartime reporting restrictions. Initially, investigators suspected the involvement of Belgian workers at the factory. They were accused of being sympathetic to Germany, something they denied.
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