Amazon.com description: Product Description: Making explosives is a dangerous business. The Royal Gunpowder Mills were engaged in that business for nearly 300 years and accidents do happen. This is the record of those accidents in which people lost their lives either in explosions or in the waterways which provided much of the early driving force for the Mills. The information comes not only from the official enquiries and inquests but from contemporary local and national newspaper reports and parish magazines.