Welcome to Royal Arsenal Woolwich guided tours 2024 registration page!
The next RAH standard tour date is:
TBC October
The extended tour will be scheduled in September or October 2024 TBC
To participate in the next tour, please register your interest, and comment on the preferred available schedule date using the form below to guarantee a place(s) on the next tour in 2024.
**Prices will increase in 2025
TBC October
The extended tour will be scheduled in September or October 2024 TBC
To participate in the next tour, please register your interest, and comment on the preferred available schedule date using the form below to guarantee a place(s) on the next tour in 2024.
**Prices will increase in 2025
We will reply with details once we have received your booking request.
Email [email protected] for any queries or if you have issues submitting the form, please book with email instead.
Email [email protected] for any queries or if you have issues submitting the form, please book with email instead.
Standard tour route approx. 3 hours long
Woolwich Arsenal History Standard 3 hour Tour area 2024
Standard RAH tour poster description
2024 RAH Woolwich Arsenal History Tours Standard (3 hours) poster
Extended tour route
Woolwich Royal Arsenal History Extended 6 hour tour area 2024
Extended tour poster description
Royal Arsenal Extended tour information poster 6 hours (including a break)
Extended tour information: 5-6 hours (same price as standard - £15)
The tour will be fully narrated, is likely to be over five hours long and will feature all the historic buildings in our shorter tours of the Arsenal’s western core. In addition, it will also include the following...
• Full description of how guns were made in the Arsenal from Bronze, Cast Iron, Wrought Iron and Steel.
• Full description of artillery ammunition manufacture.
• A description of high explosives manufacture. Deliberately limited!
• The Arsenal’s canal and it’s recently restored Lock and Swing Bridge.
• The surviving ‘Danger Buildings’.
• The remarkable roll-on roll-off railway slipway for despatch of the largest guns to firing ranges in the Thames Estuary. Its capacity was over 300 tons.
More details will be emailed before the tour date once registered.
Extra information can be found here:
https://www.royal-arsenal-history.com/extended-tour.html
The tour will be fully narrated, is likely to be over five hours long and will feature all the historic buildings in our shorter tours of the Arsenal’s western core. In addition, it will also include the following...
• Full description of how guns were made in the Arsenal from Bronze, Cast Iron, Wrought Iron and Steel.
• Full description of artillery ammunition manufacture.
• A description of high explosives manufacture. Deliberately limited!
• The Arsenal’s canal and it’s recently restored Lock and Swing Bridge.
• The surviving ‘Danger Buildings’.
• The remarkable roll-on roll-off railway slipway for despatch of the largest guns to firing ranges in the Thames Estuary. Its capacity was over 300 tons.
More details will be emailed before the tour date once registered.
Extra information can be found here:
https://www.royal-arsenal-history.com/extended-tour.html
The extended version is approx. 5-6 hours long (including a break) and the tour will head towards the danger building areas along the river Thames. More information here:
Our first tour. The first tour was on Sunday 30th July 2023 and despite unexpected rainfall was immensely well received.
So great was the appreciation that we are definitely running a couple of repeat tours.
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