Newsome, S. and Pullen, R. (2013). St Mary's Marshes, Hoo St Mary, Medway, Kent: An Assessment of the Late 19th-Century Explosives Magazines. Fort Cumberland: Historic England. https://doi.org/10.5284/1030773. Cite this using datacite

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Title:		 St Mary's Marshes, Hoo St Mary, Medway, Kent: An Assessment of the Late 19th-Century Explosives Magazines
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Series:		 Historic England Research Reports
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englishh2-178663_1.pdf (3 MB) : Download
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https://doi.org/10.5284/1030773
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Publication Type:		 Report (in Series)
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Abstract:		 In 2012 English Heritage carried out research into the little understood explosives magazines located at St Mary's Marshes on the Hoo Peninsula in Medway, Kent. The research was undertaken as part of the wider Hoo Peninsula Historic Landscape Project. Magazines were constructed on the marshes around 1892 by the Thames Storage (Explosives) Company for the packing, repacking and storage of explosives, as a commercial venture on land leased from the Dean and Chapter of Rochester Cathedral. Doubt remains over the original building materials: the surviving concrete buildings are possibly replacements for brick magazines. Documentary evidence suggests that the Thames Storage (Explosives) Company went into liquidation in 1907 but that the magazines possibly had a second life as a 'Government magazine', eventually going out of use in 1913, when the lease on the land also expired. Seven magazines survive in a ruinous state, some with protective earth bunds, and appear to be an unusual use of mass concrete in an explosives storage context.
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Author:		 Sarah Newsome ORCID icon
Rebecca Pullen ORCID icon
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Publisher:		 Historic England
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Other Person/Org:		 Kent SMR (OASIS Reviewer)
Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication:		 2013
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District: Medway
County: Kent
Parish: ST MARY HOO
Site: St Mary’s Marshes
Country: England
Grid Reference: 579910, 178990 (Easting, Northing)
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POST MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods)
NONE (Historic England Periods)
MAGAZINE (Monument Type England)
N/A (Find)
EXPLOSIVES STORE (Monument Type England)
FIELD SURVEY (Event)
FIELD OBSERVATION (VISUAL ASSESSMENT) (Event)
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OASIS Id: englishh2-178663
OBIB: 52/2013
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Note:		 A4 heat-bound report of 30pp.
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Created Date:		 01 Feb 2018