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Location Category ID: 3250 Added to Database: July 2008 Last Edited: 28 June 2014 Address: Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, London SE18 6ST Telephone: 0208 312 7103 (Monday-Friday), 0208 312 7134 (Saturday) Email: info [at] firepower.org.uk (Replace [at] with @) Opening Times: 1000-1700 Tuesday to Saturday Official Website: Firepower Royal Artillery Museum Other Links: Firepower Museum – Wikipedia Royal Regiment of Artillery – Wikipedia This Is Local London Military Vehicle Photos Latitude, Longitude: 51.494034 , 0.070024 Location Accuracy: 7 Tanks Previously Here: 1: Chieftain Concept Tank - The Tank Museum - Reserve Collection, Bovington, Dorset, South West England, Britain (Not the museum but testing nearby) The Firepower Museum tells the story of the Royal Regiment of Artillery, and of the Woolwich Royal Arsenal. It is located in some of the former buildings of the Royal Arsenal, which was Britain'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 has been one of the anchor features of this project. The forerunner of Firepower was the Royal Military Repository, which was established on the Royal Arsenal site in May 1778. After a fire in 1802 the surviving artefacts were rehoused in the Old Royal Military Academy. In 1820 the main collection was moved to the Rotunda on Woolwich Common. The collection moved to Firepower in April 2001. All of Firepower's buildings were once part of the Royal Laboratory Department, which controlled the manufacture of ammunition. (Source: Wikipedia). From its beginnings, the Royal Artillery has been based at Woolwich, in south-east London. However, in 2003 it was decided to move the headquarters to Larkhill on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire (the RA’s training ground, where the Royal School of Artillery has been based since 1915). The last Royal Artillery troops left Woolwich Barracks in 2007, breaking the long term link between Woolwich and the RA. Similarly, due to low visitor numbers plans have been made to close the museum by 2017. The main collection will be removed with elements covering the Royal Arsenal's Woolwich history kept in one of the buildings. (Source: Wikipedia, This Is Local London).

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May 2003 1: Gunnery Hall Taken: 13 May 2003 Contributor: N. Baumgardner Location Photo ID: 983 Added: 28 June 2014 Views: 185 Has Priority: 0

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