 The Kennall Gunpowder Company was granted a draft licence and their plan approved, under The Explosives Act, 1875 for a factory at Loggans Towans in June 1883.Upton Towans is the site of the National Explosives Works (known locally as the Dynamite Works) which was established in 1888 to supply explosives to the local mines.The dunes were flattened and small enclosures made to house individual buildings for the manufacture of the explosives.