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Inside the Factory That Armed the British Empire: The Royal Ordnance Factory

For 449 years, a secret city operated behind a 20-foot wall on the Thames. 80,000 workers passed through its gates daily. It fired rockets that burned Washington DC. It armed Waterloo. It built Britain's first atomic bomb — and never told the workers what they'd made. Women turned yellow from TNT poisoning, dying two per week, their compensation claims denied. Men were vaporized in explosions with no explanation given to their families. Arsenal Football Club was born here. So was the modern cooperative movement. The Royal Arsenal closed in 1967. In Belgium, its shells still kill people today. SOURCES: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_A... https://www.royalarsenalhistory.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canary_... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_M... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsenal.... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operati... https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/the-ca... #RoyalArsenal #BritishEmpire #WWI #CanaryGirls #ArsenalFC Royal Arsenal Woolwich history, Canary Girls TNT poisoning WWI, British atomic bomb Operation Hurricane, Arsenal Football Club origins, Henry Maudslay powder boy, Congreve rockets Washington DC 1814, British munitions workers First World War, Woolwich factory workers, Royal Ordnance Factory, William Penney atomic weapons