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Chittening history
Name and early history
Chittening was in the ancient parish of Henbury in Gloucestershire. It was added to Bristol in the early 20th century. The name is from chitten end(e), from Middle English or Early Modern English chitte ‘young of an animal; brat, child’
No. 23 Filling Factory
During World War I, the Ministry of Munitions built a filling factory for artillery shells on the site. The site was farmland commandeered by the military for its closeness to Avonmouth docks and to the site of the National Spelter Company’s chemical works. At Chittening, Nobel Explosives filled shells with chloropicrin, derived industrially from picric acid.
Surviving relics of the mustard gas operation
The original internal railway system of the smelting works (separate from the filling factory) was operated by two-foot gauge four-wheel battery-driven locomotives built for the Ministry of Munitions by the forerunner of Brush Traction of Loughborough. Two of them, maker’s numbers 16302 and 16307, still exist.
Since the First World War
Industrial estate developed mainly after World War II, under the management of the Port of Bristol Authority. In 1951 a factory producing carbon black was built to the north-east of the estate (Philblack, later Sevalco), and operated until 2008 when its closure was announced.
Internal structure of the trading estate
The spine, Worthy Road, and the peripheral Greensplott Road and Bank Road are all named after farms whose land disappeared under the industrial development. The estate is now organised around a structure of named roads.
Current businesses
A selection of current businesses operating from the site can be viewed online. They include specialists in transport and logistics, plant and vehicle hire, lifting gear, pallet distribution, sectional buildings, industrial cleaning, damp control and vehicle repairs.
Rail links
Between 1917 and 1964, Chittening Platform railway station was served on the Henbury Loop connecting Avonmouth with Filton Junction. The closure of the earlier platform was immortalised in the song “Slow Train” by Flanders and Swann.
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