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Macaulay Way, LONDON, SE28 8BN

These four cannons are on a road junction, Titmus Avenue is in front and Applegarth Road, heads towards the A2041 Carlye Road.

One of the many blocks of (post war development) flats along Titmus Avenue

Part of a small close of shops, beside Titmus Avenue. The two freerunners are risking their life jumping across the roof, egged on by mates and a guy with a camera!

Apart from being built on former marshland, with many of the former drainage dykes being landscaped, most of the area was also part of the Royal Arsenal at Woolwich. The remote marshes were ideal for testing explosives and to do this a series of brick enclosures called tumps were constructed. Any explosion occurring would then be directed upwards. Some of the tumps have survived to become part of the landscape as here - the outer brick wall can just be made out beyond the silver birches. This tump, known as Tump 53, has been a nature reserve run by the London Wildlife Trust for many years.

A substantial amount of the land at Thamesmead once formed part of the Royal Arsenal where explosives and weapons were manufactured, tested and stored. About 30 moated magazines, known as tumps, were built around 1890 to direct any accidental explosion harmlessly upwards. Some of the tumps have been preserved within Thamesmead. The brick walls, banked with earth have been preserved but the special lightweight roofs have been removed. After the First World War the Arsenal declined because it lay too far from coal and steel sources and the site was vulnerable to air attacks. The GLC was able to purchase the land from the Ministry of Defence in 1965 to build Thamesmead on the site. This is Tump 53 which is now a nature reserve. It is on the other side of the canal and the old walls are largely hidden by vegetation. See https://www.visitgreenwich.org.uk/thamesmead/ for more information and contact details.

A substantial amount of the land at Thamesmead once formed part of the Royal Arsenal where explosives and weapons were manufactured, tested and stored. About 30 moated magazines, known as tumps, were built around 1890 to direct any accidental explosion harmlessly upwards. Some of the tumps have been preserved within Thamesmead. The brick walls, banked with earth have been preserved but the special lightweight roofs have been removed. After the First World War the Arsenal declined because it lay too far from coal and steel sources and the site was vulnerable to air attacks. The GLC was able to purchase the land from the Ministry of Defence in 1965 to build Thamesmead on the site. This is Tump 53 which is now a nature reserve. It is on the other side of the canal and the old walls are largely hidden by vegetation. See https://www.visitgreenwich.org.uk/thamesmead/ for more information and contact details.

A substantial amount of the land at Thamesmead once formed part of the Royal Arsenal where explosives and weapons were manufactured, tested and stored. About 30 moated magazines, known as tumps, were built around 1890 to direct any accidental explosion harmlessly upwards. Some of the tumps have been preserved within Thamesmead. The brick walls, banked with earth have been preserved but the special lightweight roofs have been removed. After the First World War the Arsenal declined because it lay too far from coal and steel sources and the site was vulnerable to air attacks. The GLC was able to purchase the land from the Ministry of Defence in 1965 to build Thamesmead on the site. This is Tump 53 which is now a nature reserve. It is on the other side of the canal and the old walls are largely hidden by vegetation. See https://www.visitgreenwich.org.uk/thamesmead/ for more information and contact details.

Bentham Road becomes Crossway to heads straight on to Croosway Lake and estate. It crosses the A2041 Carlyle Road (between Central Way and Eastern Way). In the background is the new Phoenix Point development (apartment block).