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Firepower - The Royal Artillery Museum (London)

Description: Firepower: The Royal Artillery Museum is a military museum in Woolwich in south-east London, England, which tells the ... more

Firepower - The Royal Artillery Museum (London) ... story of the Royal Regiment of Artillery and of the Royal Arsenal. The museum is located in some of the former buildings of the Royal Arsenal, which was the British Government's principal ordnance manufacturing facility from the early 18th century until the mid 20th century. Since the turn of the millennium the Royal Arsenal site has been undergoing a mixed use redevelopment, and Firepower is one of the anchor features of this project.

Newest Review: ... bit on any old map or A to Z between the A206 and the Thames that is known as the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich. It's a pretty apt location, the Arsenal being an ex-armaments factory and the original home of the Royal Military Acadamy. It's a vast site, goodness knows how big. Woolwich, with its Tudor naval connections always had ordnance stores and the first building on the site, the ... more

... Tower House (no longer there) dates back to 1545 and was in an area known as the Warren. The remote (at that time) location was ideal for the manufacture and proofing of guns which started in the 1650s. Proofing involves the testing at over-design press...more

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Firepower - The Royal Artillery Museum (London): A Bigger Bang (2288 words)
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Bang bang you're dead! We used to play that at primary school. We all used to walk around the playground at the start of playtime in a long line, all linked arms and pally, singing, "Who wants to play...WAR!" Then we'd pick sides and one lot would be the Germans and the other the Allies. Or the English because that's how it always was. When you're 9 it doesn't matter, does it. You had no concept of arch nationalism or lebensraum or hate even, unless you were being made to suffer some kind perverse religious indoctrination. You didn't like Pete because he smelled of wee but if he had David Sadler or Peter Lawler footy cards he ... Read the complete review

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