Arsenal Railway

Transport

Train ready for a visit of King George V.

Mercury special edition "Connection" 1986


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Crossness Engines

“Pompey” class 0-4-0ST (Kerr Stewart of Stoke on Trent )

2014-05-12
2012-02-14

SEWELL, WilliamThomas(1858-1920)

worker

SEWELL,  William aged 61years buried Plumstead Cemetery.
1920mar Woolwich 1D 1476

Three generations of my Sewell family have worked at the RA. My Grandfather, Thomas Edward Sewell (1885-1954) worked at the RA for over 50 years retiring in 1952. He was first a machinist, then an overlooker in the laboratory and finally worked in the storeroom. The house that my grandparents lived in at Eltham was one of many built to RA specifications before the First World War. It included a bathroom, range, scullery and garden with a green in the centre of the road between the houses for the children to play.

His father William Thomas Sewell (1858-1920) according to the census of 1871 at the age of 14 tears was a Cartridge Maker alongside his two elder brothers. John (Daniel John b.1850) age 20 was a labourer, while Alfred (William Alfred Jones b.1856) at 15 years was a Bullet Maker. William Thomas continued working at the RA as a labourer in the Laboratory until his death in 1920 at the age of 61 years. Their father, Jonathon William (1824-1881) had moved from Suffolk, where he was born, to the East End working as shipbuilder and engineering labourer. When the family moved south to Plumstead in the early 1860's he worked as a labourer at the RA.

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2014-02-14

The Jolly Boys

The Jolly Boys Concert Party - Royal Arsenal 1914-18

 

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2014.02.09

Post Card.
date ?

Wellington Statue
Millet mortar









2014.01.27
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MILLS, James(1835-1918)

1901census 66 years //at home with family address 20 Arthur Street, Plumstead. SE18
Saw Sharpener

(1901census 63 years // at home with family address 98 Robert Street, Plumstead. SE18
Retired Mechanical Engineer)

1911census at home with family address 66 Brewery Road, Plumstead. SE18
Old Age Pensioner Formerly Saw Mill Machinist. 

Died aged 82.

See ...
http://www.ideal-homes.org.uk/greenwich/assets/galleries/plumstead/royal-arsenal-workers

2013.12.23

Wheelers Shop

shop

Post Card

WW 1- govenment shell filling factory

unknown photograph

Was this taken in Woolwich or else where during WW 1 ?

The author writes ….sorting, shed, possibly at the Royal Shell Filling Factory at Woolwich ..

Checking the lifting plugs fitted to completed high explosive shells. These plugs are removed and replaced with fuses when the shell reaches its firing position [gun battery].

Artillery in the Great War by Paul Strong and Sanders Marble
Published by Pen & Sword 2011 (paper back 2013)

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http://www.livesofthefirstworldwar.org/

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