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Huddersfield, The Memorial, Greenhead Park 1957
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British Dyes During the Boer War, Read Holliday and Sons manufactured picric acid for the explosive Lyddite which resulted in a massive explosion at the works in 1900. The demand for both explosives and dyestuffs caused such concern to the government during the First World War that they created a new company, British Dyes, which bought Holliday's out. A vast 450-acre greenfield site at Dalton was acquired for the construction of the new works. This later became the world famous company ICI which branched out into agrichemicals and pharmaceuticals. Read Holliday's grandson, Lionel Brook Holliday, who had served on the Western Front as a major, started his own company further along Leeds Road.
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