Fantastic one bedroom apartment in the
prestigious royal arsenal development. In immaculate condition and close
to the DLR and main line train station, this property is A must view
for A professional couple. Call today to view !
New to the market is this wonderful one bed apartment on the ever popular Royal Arsenal development
The property is in excellent condition and is ideally located for local transport links.
Benefits
include a fully applianced kitchen, modern bathroom suite and large
lounge with wooden flooring and a contemporary finish
Additionally, there is a decked area overlooking a courtyard to the rear
Call today to view !
Woolwich
remained a small Kentish village until it started to become a leading
military and industrial town. It was home to the Woolwich Dockyard, the
Royal Arsenal (dating back to 1471), the Royal Military Academy (1741)
and the Royal Horse Artillery (1793); the town still retains an army
base at the Royal Artillery Barracks (although 16RA Royal Artillery left
in 2007, Woolwich Barracks still house the Royal Artillery Band and
more recently Second Battalion Princess of Wales Royal Regiment and
Kings Troop Royal Horse Artillery), and the Royal Artillery Museum,
Firepower.
Arsenal Football Club were founded in Woolwich in 1886 by
workers at the Arsenal – the club were initially known as Dial Square,
then Royal Arsenal and then became Woolwich Arsenal in 1891. They moved
to Arsenal Stadium, Highbury in north London in 1913, and dropped the
Woolwich prefix the following year. This is a rare example of a British
football team moving from its local area, albeit relocating within the
same conurbation.
Woolwich Polytechnic founded in 1892, merged with
other local colleges and became Thames Polytechnic in 1970. In 1992 it
was granted university status as the University of Greenwich. In 2000,
the University began a relocation to the Old Naval College, several
miles to the west in Greenwich town centre, leaving only an
administrative presence in Woolwich.
Woolwich was the start of the
route of the last London tram, on 5 July 1952.A scheduled Route 40 tram,
restricted to just a nominal number of fare paying passengers, was
driven through enormous crowds to New Cross, finally arriving at New
Cross depot around 1am on the 6 July.
Woolwich is the location of the
United Kingdom’s first branch of McDonald’s (the 3,000th in the world),
which opened on 13 November 1974. Woolwich was chosen because it was
considered to be a representative English town at the time
Once
redevelopment of the former Royal Arsenal site began, Woolwich started
to enjoy a renaissance. Several High Street chains previously absent
from Woolwich have opened branches, and longer-established shops have
been refurbished. The new terminus of the Docklands Light Railway’s
London City Airport branch, Woolwich Arsenal station opened on 10
January 2009.
A large-scale redevelopment of the area around Love
Lane called Woolwich Central, near the eastern end of Powis Street,
commenced in 2011. The project includes demolition of several buildings
including the Post Office, Crown Building, Peggy Middleton House and
Thomas Spencer Halls of Residence, and the construction of new council
offices called the Woolwich Centre ( opened in August 2011 ) and
housing, local shops and a large branch of Tesco (opened in November
2012).