From bouncing bombs to bunker signs: inside Purfleet’s military museum

From bouncing bombs to bunker signs: inside Purfleet’s military museum

On the edge of London is an 18th-century building once used to store gunpowder for the navy, and now, open as a surprisingly large museum of local and military history. The building exists because Londoners once became deeply uneasy about storing enormous quantities of gunpowder at North Greenwich. Their complaints eventually persuaded the government to relocate the explosive stockpiles downriver to Purfleet, where a sprawling complex of fortifi…