Welcome to Royal Arsenal Woolwich guided tours registration page!
If you would like to participate in the next tour, please register your interest using the form below.
Our first extended and in-depth version will be on Sunday 8th October 2023 (more details below)
Our first extended and in-depth version will be on Sunday 8th October 2023 (more details below)
We will reply with details once we have received your booking request.
Email enquiries@royal-arsenal-history.com for any queries or if you have issues submitting the form, please book with email instead.
Email enquiries@royal-arsenal-history.com for any queries or if you have issues submitting the form, please book with email instead.
Tour route and description information:
Standard tour route approx. 3 hours long
Woolwich Arsenal History Standard 3 hour Tour area
Extended tour route
Woolwich Royal Arsenal History Extended 6 hour tour area
Extended tour information: 5-6 hours (same price as standard - £12)
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
Standard RAH tour description
RAH Woolwich Arsenal History Tours Standard 2.5 - 3 hours poster
Extended tour description
Royal Arsenal Extended tour information poster 6 hours (including a break)
The extended version is approx. 6 hours long (including a break) and the tour will head towards the danger building areas along the river Thames.
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.
**Bulk discount £10 per person for a group of 5 or more people in one booking
Feedback
Here are the tours first few feedback comments from the first tour extracted from RAH facebook.
Royal-Arsenal-History.com - RAH Tours