munitions

Me and my wife were staying in the Galloway area for a couple weeks, so I found a few hours to slip away for the camera for what was the first proper explore in ages. I don't have nearly the time I once had to do this, so I have to make an effort to get out with the camera when there is a half...

History: The site is a Grade II listed Victorian munitions depot that was established 1889 and remained operational into the 1970s. There's a number of buildings, that have all seen a number of changes over the years. Most notably the conversion for farming related purposes. I'd suggest you...

1. The History The former War Department munitions depot at Barlby is located near Selby, North Yorkshire. Grade II listed in December 2018 due to it being a remarkably complete late Victorian munitions depot and forerunner of the much larger depots constructed during the First World War, it was...

History- They are 25 War Ministry Ammunition Storage Dumps for ammunition and bulk explosives produced by/for the Royal Ordnance Factories (ROFs) during WW2. ROFs were munition factories run by the UK government during and after WW2. The ammunition dumps I visited were built by the army during...

History (from the @The Lone Ranger's report, many thanks to him) The site of the former Bandeath Munitions Depot lies within a meander of the River Forth, north of Throsk, three miles east of Stirling. The facility began as an Admiralty Depot during World War I, with a nearby PoW camp, after...

I was in the area for a different explore and came across this with a couple mates, so we did we do best explore. Unfortunately the site is going to be redevelopment as recently some planning permission has been granted with a few conditions which is quite sad to see. Unfortunately the current...

This was a chill out in the evening of a rather hectic day so we only covered a small amount of the 35 buildings here. TBH it was lovely just sitting there letting the drone do the work! Bandeath Munitions Depot lies within a meander of the River Forth, north of Throsk, three miles east of...

Visited Edingham Munitions Factory with @wolfism. This is a huge site with buildings dotted over acres of countryside. Sheep and cattle graze on the land. It is also used for army and police training so checking availability with the land owner is recommended. Contact details here...

After seeing MK83's superb report on this place I wanted to look. Luckily enough I was near it coming home from Scotland so had to pop in myself. It was a nice relaxed explore. I liked the policemans houses and though they were stripped they had some nice features still. The gunpowder store was...

Had a mooch round this place earlier in the week while I was out walking. There's not much to see really and I was in two minds about posting it but as ROF Kirkby had 2 offsite depots and I can only find the Rainford one posted on here i thought I might as well make it a whole set. History -...

Had this place pinned for a while as these small overlooked military sites are right up our street. History - This place is a bit unusual as while it's a munitions depot it was built in 1889 and is grade two listed owing to the fact that it's largely complete and considered to be a forerunner...

History - ROF Standish was one of many Royal ordinance factories built at the start of world war 2 to assemble ammunition and weapons for the war effort. Each ROF factory specialised in specific types of ammunition and ROF Standish made .303 rounds most notably used in the chain fed machine guns...

As I was being escorted off site, security kindly informed me that the place is open to the public for an annual fee! no thanks mate This was a WW2 site that was used for the storage and production of mustard gas It was later also used in the development of the UK's atomic bomb project. More...

Hey guys, we’ll we decided to pack the van up and go for an explore around Ayrshire this weekend and camped out at Edingham munitions on the Friday night to explore Saturday morning before we moved onto the next one, unfortunately I don’t know much history on the place other than it appears I...

Less than a year into the First World War, Allied troops on the Western Front faced a shortage of artillery shells. The dire situation led to what became known as the Shell Crisis of 1915 and the fall of the Asquith government. The new coalition government set up a Ministry of Munitions to...