Banbury's First World War National Filling Factory No9

A scrubby field next to the M40 at Banbury has a secret - in 1916 it was a first world war shell filling factory. Back then it employed more than 1500 people - a third of them women. English Heritage descibres it as being of national and international significance even though little remains of it today as it was dismantled in the early 1920s. In this video Dale Johnston from Banbury Museum walk us through this ghost factory.

[@philbeesley9265]

I have walked across this site many times walking my dog. Moved away from Banbury many years ago but thanks for the video

[@positivelifeskills4you914]

Excellent, how many times I have driven the M40 and had no clue to the history I was passing by. Thank you.

[@auchendeanlodge]

What an excellent film. Thanks for putting it together - from an exiled Banburian, still fascinated by my birthplace

[@waynemotherway8192]

Thanks for the history much of what has been lost, from an ex pat

[@jimcarpenter5775]

I lived about 15mins walk from this and as s kid we use to go blackberry picking there and later we use to go rabbiting there.
My gramother worked at the site as a young girl filling the shells and other jobs.