Royal Arsenal

The Royal Arsenal, Woolwich completed armaments manufacture, ammunition proofing, and explosives studies for the British armed forces at a domain at the south financial institution of the River Thames in Woolwich in south-east London, England, United Kingdom. It changed into firstly called the Woolwich Warren, having started on land formerly used as a domestic warren within the grounds of a Tudor house, Tower Place. Much of the preliminary records of the website online is linked with that of the Board of Ordnance, which purchased the Warren inside the overdue 17^th century to be able to extend an earlier base at Gun Wharf in Woolwich Dockyard.

Over the next two centuries, as operations grew and improvements were pursued, the website online increased vastly; on the time of the First World War the Arsenal protected 1,285 acres and employed close to 80,000 people. Thereafter its operations were scaled down; it finally closed as a manufacturing facility in 1967 and the Ministry of Defence moved out in 1994. Today the place, see you later a mystery enclave, is open to the general public and is being redeveloped for housing and community use.