Secret Royal Arsenal Woolwich Maps
1918 - WW1 Royal Arsenal Secret map - to zoom in click download file below
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1920's - Royal Arsenal Secret Map - to zoom in click download file below
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2D 1930s map (copyright Ian Bull) this map is 3D liftable. To zoom click file below
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1921 Royal Arsenal Railway (RAR)
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1930's - Royal Arsenal Secret Map (Greenwich Heritage Centre). To zoom in click download file below
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1931 Map File location download key for higher resolution
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1950's - Multi stitched map from various sources. To zoom in click download file below
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1958 - The last published map. To zoom in click download file below
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1918 WW1 Map with overlay of todays structures, roads, waterways and houses. Click file below to zoom
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Zoom in to see what Thamesmead street had a role to play in the Royal Arsenal in 1920.
Click on download file below to zoom
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Royal Arsenal remnants, click on files to zoom in and to read related text reference file
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78) Lighthouse destroyed in 2024
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WW2 Woolwich Royal Arsenal. The Arsenal boundary from Warren Lane to Crossness. The Secret City
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A glimpse inside the Secret City - Woolwich Arsenal West WW2 - 1944
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Woolwich Arsenal History Standard 3 hour Tour area
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Woolwich Warren, Royal Arsenal expansion maps
Woolwich Dockyard, the beginnings of the Royal Arsenal Woolwich
1671 Gun wharf Woolwich
1670 Map Woolwich Royal Arsenal
1696 Map Woolwich Warren (Royal Arsenal)
Woolwich Warren in 1717
1717 Woolwich Warren (boundary and buildings)
1746 The Woolwich Warren. Map of 1746 showing 'The Warren' (right) with its three quadrangles: the original Laboratory (1696), the 'Great Pile' (1717-20) and New Carriage Yard (1728-9)
1749 Woolwich Warren
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1777 Woolwich Warren
1778 Woolwich
1777 Woolwich Arsenal buildings and boundary
1800 Woolwich Arsenal buildings and boundary
1810 Woolwich Arsenal buildings and boundary
1810 Woolwich Ordnance ground
1858 Royal Arsenal Woolwich
1872 Royal Arsenal Woolwich
1877 Woolwich Arsenal (Royal Arsenal)
1877 Boundary Woolwich Arsenal (Royal Arsenal)
1880 Woolwich Arsenal (Royal Arsenal)
1885 Woolwich
1890 Arsenal expansion into Plumstead/Erith marshes up to Crossness. Proof butts were added.
1902 Royal Dockyard, Woolwich, Royal Arsenal and Plumstead
c1902 Street Plan showing Royal Dockyard, Woolwich, Royal Arsenal and Plumstead
1914 Royal Arsenal map
1920 at its Zenith over 3 miles wide, 1 miles deep, 140 miles of railway lines and over 1100 buildings
1926 Woolwich
Danger Building Maps
1903 Danger Buildings explosion
1903 Danger Buildings Lyddite establishment explosion
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1914 Draft plan of lyddite and cannon cordite cartridge factories Royal Arsenal Woolwich
1940s. Air Raid shelters above lyddite factory at Tripcock point
1930s Area E (Thamesmead) Danger building area. Lyddite factory, filled shell stores, coal bunkers, boiler houses, shifting houses, cartridge factory
1930s Danger Building area Tripcock Point Woolwich Arsenal - The area on the top right is still there today
1970s Survey - Royal Arsenal Danger Building Area diggers - Clearance in prep for grading of the entire area
Royal Arsenal zoomed in 1918 map and building numbers and descriptions
Royal Arsenal zoomed in 1918 map overlayed with 2018 map, includes building numbers and descriptions
Royal Arsenal maps