alan turner (RIP)

M 107 at 175mm not nuclear capable easily but M110 at 203mm (8") capable of nuclear firing

Elf & safty aint new 50 odd years ago the Guys in woolwich arsenal were subjected to regular exhibitions both mobile and static

A frame and roped over trolley, there was still an example frame when last I went up the Rotunda and victorian photos of them Parbolling a gun accross the lake in the dip below that site in the RA collection in Firepower.

Ian Bull is giving a talk to the RAWHS at their meeting on January 19th at the Greenwich Herritage centre in the arsenal between 12 and 1.

Ian has just been up to National railway muesum to catalogue their collection of Royal arsenal railways and hopes to be able to use samples of these in his talk.

Careful limited number and parking.

glad to be of service

Les

Yes thats the lot I went through but not the drawings they are still being catalogued on site by someone else and are the olg Arsenal Gun factory drawings.

There were some lovely ones of the Kyber PAss and Hindu cush and the number of times the Taj Mahal came up well!!. Then there were the demob pics taken at the parade square at disbandment of certain regiments, 25 pdrs all bulled and 57 HAA with MAtadors and 3.7" guns

The castle, Royal Military Accademy Woolwich, THE SHOP. ( Woolwich's 2nd B40 in the arsenal being the first) has been vacated by the MOD in a state of disrepair like the Rotunda, and has now become another of those housing projects for rich people, as did the Royal Herbert Military Hospital at the cross roads, some years previously.

Have a look at 28days later urban exploration site they have some good views when they sneaked in there some time back, no damage take photos and leave.

Thank goodeness this topic came up there is so much to look throught I thought that there wasn't one, but felt sure that couldn't be the case.

So heres a small selection from the RAWHS collection

isnt it a King Tiger

Les you made a comment about a lack of private piccies from WW2, I also found this to be the case when I catalogued the Royal Artillery Photo albums.

WW1 was well documented as the officers had the money to make use of cameras to show their events an treated it as a game, this continued into the 30's , but WW2 had a lot of lower paid officers and seems to have had a ban on private camera use and film rationing so not so many appeared in collections unless you managed to appropriate a nice Leica on your travels with a film supply.

I also posted these images on the 105 topic that the pig pic went on from the RAWHS collection

Richard I suppose that it could have been a chassis for this

dont know if these will help from thE Rawhs Collection

or these

dougie these might go down well on the site. The pattern makers shop in woolwich c1960/61

do you mean this one Richard? Taken on the sultry banks of the canal at Woolwich

re radiomikes picciy it looks like RA woolwichas tehgun looks familiar, the one I posted with the ferreet could have been CHertsey, Woolwich, Farnborough or leyland

two new images into the RAWHS collection shows that they made pigs at ROF nottingham as well

Hi opack we must havew met at some time as I have been involved at FP since 2001

I owndered if the VW unit was the 1800 out of an FH70?

added itemwell done chaps I wondered who would be first to spot that the last one is wrong for this topic.:nono:

Seriously you knock out 25000 negs and theres always somebody picks up on errors:sweat:

I shall leave it for the time being!!

Dougie if it isnt for a large tin of corned beef then is it the key that opens the top latch of the semi circular roof door section?

i felt it was one of these

there is a RAWHS web site at qq22.net 2nd page, it was started by Paul Brooke and Ray Fordham (current Historian) about 8 years ago, before I got involved. The society objected to it so Paul diassociated it and himself from the society. I managed to get him to give me copy discs to keep it going with Tim Bluck, but nothing has yet been added to it from these images.

The society now want to have a web site containing just 4 pages of information, so we are meeting next week and hope that we can talk them into throwing their money into a site that attracted over 30,000 hits a year.

All the images are on my home PC but can be carried on a 4gb stick.Wheeled vehicles are listed by Manufacturer and tracked by designation/name.

just after 11am gray painted AEW Sea King over Bostall Woods at less than 1000ft went as far as Erith then turned right to follow the A2 back towards London

got some drawing for 432 etc in RAWHS collection , as Woolwich did all the owners handbooks preparation.

bit more of early landie fire truck