Saturday, 22 September 2012

Saturday: The Royal Gunpowder Mills

My father came down this weekend for a wedding on Friday, so today we went to the Royal Gunpowder Mills near Waltham Abbey. They used to make gunpowder there until the 1890's and then made cordite:


It was a research establishment after the war and now, after a lengthy decontamination, it's a museum. Making explosives was a dangerous business and the museum details the accidents and precautions taken by the workers and in the construction of the buildings:


It is also very interactive with demonstrations for children big and small:


(what happens when you add Mintoes to a big bottle of Cola?).

It'a also got a very large display of guns and rockets:


It was a good day out and worth the trip.

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