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Open 25 April - 27 September 2009 |
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Open 25 April - 27 September 2009 |
Waltham Abbey
Waltham Abbey, home of the Royal Gunpowder Mills, is one of
the most westerly towns in Essex, stands on the county's
boundary with Hertfordshire. This site has been set up to
act as an information resource for the local community, and
to act as a guide to the town for potential visitors from
around the world
Epping
Forest District Museum
Located in Waltham Abbey, the museum tells the story of the people who have lived and worked in this part of west Essex from the earliest inhabitants to the present. Housed in a building dating to 1520. The Museum offers something for all the family, with plenty of gallery trails and hands on activities for kids. If the weathers fine why not enjoy the museum garden.
Oare
Gunpowder Works
Oare Gunpowder Works, the best preserved of its kind in
the UK after Waltham Abbey, was one of three such factories
in the
Faversham area, the others being the Marsh and Home
Works.
Oare Gunpowder Works is now open free of charge to the
public. Located 1m W of Faversham, just off the B2045 and
close to the M2, the newly-restored site offers glimpses
into the past art of making gunpowder. Following
signed woodland and waterside trails, you will see
narrow-gauge canals once used by powder punts, a mill-pond,
an 80-year-old powder mill repatriated from Ayrshire, danger
houses, and at weekends (before long) a Visitor Centre, with
displays explaining how gunpowder is made, how the site has
developed, and what is its wildlife interest.
Chart
Gunpowder Mills
Centre of the nations explosive?s industry for 400
years, the 18th century Chart Gunpowder Mills are the
oldest of their kind in the world, powder from which was
used at the battles of Trafalgar and Waterloo. Chart Mills
were part of the Home Works, Faversham's first gunpowder
factory and one of the first in Britain. It was established
probably circa 1560 but the Chart Mills were rebuilt when
the Government took control some 200 years later. Following
Chart Mills closure in the 1930's, it fell into disrepair
and was almost lost until The
Faversham Society rescued the Mills, restored it and
opened it to the public in April 1969.
Devil's
Porridge
An amazing exhibition tells the story of the greatest
munitions factory on earth.... In 1915, Britain was losing
the war through lack of ammunition..... until 30,000 women
and men came from all over the world to work in the massive
factory on the Solway.
Hagley
Museum and Library
Located on 235 acres along the banks of the Brandywine River in Wilmington, Delaware, Hagley is the site of the gunpowder works founded by E. I. du Pont in 1802. This example of early American industry includes restored mills, a workers' community, and the ancestral home and gardens of the du Pont family.
Epping Ongar Railway
Volunteer Society
The Epping Ongar Railway Volunteer Society (EORVS) was
formed in 2000 as the support group of the operating company
Epping Ongar Railway Ltd. Our aim was to operate a passenger
train service between Ongar and North Weald, with the future
plan of a connection to Epping.EORVS will now run 5,
50-minute round-trip services on the six mile track each
Sunday throughout October-March with an additional afternoon
trip introduced in the summer months (April-Sept).
Kew Bridge Steam Museum
The Kew Bridge Steam Museum is housed in a magnificent
19th Century Pumping Station and centres around the
station's five world famous Cornish Beam Engines, two of
which can be seen, in steam, every weekend. Originally used
to pump West London's water supply for more than a century,
one of them, the "Grand Junction 90", is the
largest working beam engine in the world.
The
Devil's Porridge
Nothing to do with food... the Devil's Porridge was the name
given by Sherlock Holmes creator Arthur Conan Doyle to the
explosive paste mixed at H.M. Factory Gretna during the
First World War. 30,000 people came to this quiet corner of
rural Scotland to aid the war effort as Britain and her
Allies were struggling with a shortage of munitions. Today,
the factory does not exist, but in Eastriggs, the Devil's
Porridge lives on in an exhibition which celebrates the hard
work and sacrifices made by the workers, and the impact the
factory had life in this area
Museum of Naval
Firepower
Gosport - Hampshire
Royal Small Arms Factory Apprentices Association
Royal Small Arms Factory at Enfield Lock
Royal
Arsenal Woolich
Since about 1518 Woolwich had been the location of the Royal
Dockyard and ordnance storehouses but development of the
present site of Royal Arsenal West, then known as Woolwich
Warren, began in 1671 when the Crown purchased the old
mansion known as Tower Place together with 31 acres of land,
for use as an ordnance storage depot. The change from
storage depot to munitions factory began in 1 696 when the
Royal Laboratory was constructed for the purpose of
manufacturing ammunition, fuses and gun-powder.
National
Army Museum
The National Army Museum is the British Army's own museum.
It is the only museum to tell the story of the Army as a
whole from Agincourt in the Fifteenth Century to
peace-keeping in the Twenty-first Century.
The
Tank Museum
The Tank Museum, Bovington, United Kingdom An Independent
Museum and a Registered Charity.
Duxford
Imperial War Museum
Although best known for its 180 historic aircraft, Duxford's
seven acres of indoor exhibition space include one of the
finest collections of tanks and military vehicles in the
country and a range of exhibitions, among them the recently
opened Normandy Experience and Monty.
The
Imperial War Museum
The Imperial War
Museum is the museum of everyone's story: the history of
modern war and people's experience of war and wartime life
in Britain and the Commonwealth
Bletchly Park
During World War II the German armed forces' top secret codes were broken at Bletchley Park, providing the Allies with vital information towards their war effort. Situated 50 miles North-West of London, Bletchley played host to a diverse group of code breakers. Among the ciphers that were broken were
Enigma and Lorenz.
KELVEDON
HATCH
The biggest and deepest cold war bunker open to the public
in southeast England.
Bridgend Royal Ordnance Factory
This brief history is but a small contribution to the story of the Bridgend Royal Ordnance Factory, but the mass of its history is still missing, probably never to be uncovered. Surely, some will think that it was all a myth because so much is missing, it is therefore with a touch of sadness that I feel that more could have been recorded in the past when many more participants were still alive to tell the tale.
The Royal Gunpowder Mills, Ballincollig Co. Cork is a unique and exciting Industrial Complex, which meanders along the bank of the river Lee.
Copped Hall is a burnt-out shell of a fine Georgian mansion ? superbly sited on a ridge overlooking its landscaped parkland. The mansion is visible from the M25 which passes through a corner of the park. The mansion and gardens are situated on a site of ancient human habitation. Important buildings were demolished when the present mansion was built. Guided tours are arranged on the two annual Open Days, on our public tours every third sunday of the month and for special interest groups who book up throughout the year. These tours cover the gardens, walled garden, racquet court and part of the mansion- including the cellars.
www.armouries.org.uk/fort/
Fort Nelson is one of the great forts built around
Portsmouth in the 1860s to guard the Dockyard from the
threat of French invasion. It is an outstanding example of
Victorian architecture and provides the ideal setting for
the Royal Armouries collection of artillery. Some key
exhibits, such as the 7-inch 'Armstrong' RBL gun are mounted
in their original emplacements and can be seen firing on
certain events days.
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