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4 unusual facts about Royal Artillery Barracks


Royal Artillery Barracks

Suggestions of a move came to nothing until a Defence Estates Review in 2003 proposed a move to Larkhill on Salisbury Plain (where the Royal School of Artillery has been based since 1915).

Despite being a listed building, it too was demolished (in 1975), the College having moved to Shrivenham in 1939.

The shooting events at the 2012 Summer Olympics and Paralympics were held at a temporary venue at the Barracks.

Vinyloop

Roofing covers of the Olympic Stadium, the Water Polo Arena, the London Aquatics Centre and the Royal Artillery Barracks will be deconstructed and a part will be recycled in the VinyLoop process.


Shackleton Barracks

The closure eventually took place in March 2008, when the infantry battalion, 2nd Battalion, Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment moved to Royal Artillery Barracks, Woolwich, London.

Woolwich Dockyard railway station

During the 2012 Olympics, the station was closed owing to its proximity to the Royal Artillery Barracks.


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