Dial Square won 6-0 and met in the Royal Oak pub, next to Woolwich Arsenal station, on Christmas Day 1886. And as they sat in the Royal Oak, the founding fathers chose a new name - their place of work ...
But there’s one well-known station that doesn’t have the same level of footfall - probably because it lacks a London ...
Arsenal's move from Woolwich to Highbury was borne of ambition and necessity ... to another club - Tottenham - something Norris wanted to avoid. But the nearby underground station would increase the ...
London is in many ways the beating heart of the UK's railway network and filled with magnificent heritage. When you think of ...
A bus driver who hit and killed a pensioner as she crossed the road outside Woolwich Arsenal station has avoided prison. Ozdemir Zia, 77, hit Edna McLean, 83, as he turned his double-decker bus ...
Zia, 77, was turning on to Vincent Road next to Woolwich Arsenal station, south-east London, when he hit Mrs McLean in September 2021. He was convicted of causing death by careless driving and ...
Founded as Dial Square, named after one of the workshops at the Arsenal munitions factory in Woolwich, south-east London, in 1886, they soon became Royal Arsenal and then Woolwich Arsenal in 1891.