Firepower!: The Royal Artillery Museum, Woolwich: Part 2 - Firepower!
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
- This is the second of two videos I have created to tell the story of the Royal Artillery Museum, Woolwich from the early 1800s until its closure in July 2016. The first video can be seen here = • Firepower!: The Royal ... .
Hi Bob, enjoyed watching both of your videos. I grew up near and went to school in Woolwich and visited the Rotunda on several occasions. Glad to hear it was still being used by the Kings Troop. I left the UK in 2003, so I have been out of touch. Many Thanks👍
@@paulbenson9015 I was pleased to read that you enjoyed these videos. I used to teach in Woolwich from 1975 to 1985.
I used to visit Firepower in Woolwich quite a lot and all 6 of my nieces visited there with me - all really loved the place - before it closed . There was a very good interactive section and an excellent Battle of Waterloo diorama upstairs. I occasionally managed to enter Building 41 (this wasn't part of your ticket price) and it was absolutely packed with Cold War vehicles - packed to the rafters. Also diagonally opposite the entrance next to building 41 there was rooms with loads of Samurai, Mongol and late European Armour with weapons and muskets. Only managed entry here twice in 16 years. They even had a day with WW2 enactors.... some firing a 2pdr AT gun. Crying shame it was moved..... never ever advertised on any forum, so you can see why it was never properly used.
In some ways, they might have been better off leaving the museum in the Rotunda. The move to the Arsenal site was premature in that there was little or no infrastructure to support it and the local council seemed embarrassed by its presence. Having a war museum didn’t fit in with their ‘vision’ for the future. This is born out by the sidelining of the former Heritage Centre (which was also relocated to the same site from its former location in Blackheath). It was closed soon after Firepower and the local archives were moved into storage which you can now only access by appointment with the part-time archivist. It makes local history research very difficult.
Hi Bob, I went to Eaglesfield Comprehensive from 73 to 79. I think the first year of conversion from Shooters Hill Grammar School.
When I joined Woolwich Poly in 1975, it had just take over the old Bloomfield School site in Sandy Hill Road. That became the Upper School and the original building in MacBean Street in Woolwich became the Lower School.