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Report - Barbly Munitions Depot..Yorkshire, July 2021

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Mikeymutt🐶

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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 also a really interesting building with some nice doors with signage still on them.
During Victorian times the supplies of munitions were organised by the British army. Due to some serious problems during the Crimean war the storage and supply was transferred to the war office. Although this never really solved the problem, as problems arose still in 1915 in the First World War. I think it's the usual the ncomptenance of moving things from one department to another and shuffling the problem around. The site at Barbly was constructed in 1889 and was one of several forerunners before the larger munitions factories were built. The site was expanded over the years. The central gunpowder store has blast walls around the building. Their are several stores along the far edge and a small row of houses which housed the metropolitan police who guarded the site. The site was used by the ministry of defence till the seventies and the metropolitan police continued to guard it till then, even though no ordnance was stored there anymore. It's nice to see a site that is so intact considering its age. A lot of info here at historic England

The three policemens houses.

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Two smaller stores away from the main buildings

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The row of main stores with a central doorway on each and a nice plinth above with signage on them.

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The main gunpowder stores

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MK83

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Love your photo's, you've done a better job of it than I did! Great little place this, unusual and interesting.
 

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