Last Updated: 11/30/2009 15:20:38


More will be added, but there are at least 28 more pics to process.
And comments...



 

 

 



  Tangye cordite press.

 



  Part of an Avro Vulcan jet engine.

 



  Having wandered into the first exhibition encountered on walking over from the ticket office, my first impression of the Royal Gunpowder Mills in Enfield was poised to be this interesting-looking display of missiles connected to post-war work here, but of a sudden, the air was rent by an enormous voice, volume turned up to maximum, and the continual squeals and squeaks of surprise of small children.
  Curiosity? You bet! (But I hadn't brought the earmuffs I use on the rifle range!) In a - I suppose you would have to call it a lecture - um - shed - was Professor Nitrate: rather well-named, I thought, in view of the explosive delivery of his lecture.

 


  Gavioli fairground organ.

 


 

 


  Narrow gauge railway - explosives cart  


  The first model encountered...  


  And the second hove into view, eliciting a certain feeling of envy of that start in life...  
It wasn't until I rounded Prof. Nitrate's shed that the scale of the rally became really evident...


   


   


   


   


   


   


   


   


   


   


   


   


   


   


   


   


   


   


   


   


   


   


   


   


   


   
The Epping Ongar Railway made an appearance
but not on rails.

well, I don't think so...