Welcome to Royal Arsenal Woolwich guided tours 2024 registration page!
If you would like to participate in the next tour, please register your interest using the form below to guarantee place(s) on the next available 2024. (The tours will likely start in spring 2024)
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.
Standard tour route approx. 3 hours long
Standard RAH tour poster description
Extended tour route
Extended tour poster description
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:
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