The Battle of Elswick: Armstrong’s Works and the Armed Tyne
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The Battle of Elswick: Armstrong’s Works and the Armed Tyne
By the 1880s, the Elswick Works on the Tyne employed 25,000 people and supplied warships and artillery to navies across the world. One man's engineering genius remade an…
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