In the club's early years its progress was hampered by the nearby presence of Woolwich Arsenal F. C.

The colours had been chosen by the group of boys who had founded Charlton Athletic in 1905 after having to play their first matches in the borrowed kits of their local rivals Woolwich Arsenal, who also played in red and white.

It reaches north to Stratford, south to Lewisham, west to and in the City of London financial district, and east to Beckton, London City Airport and Woolwich Arsenal.

Henry Maudslay, who trained a school of machine tool makers early in the 19th century, was employed at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, as a young man where he would have seen the large horse-driven wooden machines for cannon boring made and worked by the Verbruggans.

William Congreve, son of the Comptroller of the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, London, became a major figure in the field.

At the start of the 1893 – 94 season, Newcastle United were once again refused entry to the First Division and so joined the Second Division, along with Liverpool and Woolwich Arsenal.

They played their first competitive match in the division that September against Woolwich Arsenal, with a score of 2 – 2.

In Great Britain cordite was developed for military use at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, and at the Waltham Abbey Royal Gunpowder Mills from 1889 onwards.

Under his new position, Armstrong worked to bring the old Woolwich Arsenal up to date so that it could build guns designed at Elswick.

They only remained at this ground for a year as in April 1899, 14, 000 fans turned up to watch Spurs play Woolwich Arsenal.

* Jacketed Hollow Point ( JHP ): Soon after the invention of the JSP, Woolwich Arsenal in Great Britain experimented with this design even further by forming a hole or cavity in the nose of the bullet while keeping most of the exterior profile intact.

), English footballer, who played for Woolwich Arsenal and Portsmouth

An alternative plan was devised in the 1970s to extend the Jubilee line parallel to the River Thames: this would have taken the line from Fenchurch Street to Thamesmead via St Katharine Docks, Wapping, Surrey Docks North, Millwall ( near to South Quay DLR station ), North Greenwich, Custom House, Silvertown, Woolwich Arsenal, and thence to Thamesmead.

The three cannon barrels, taken from the arms of the Metropolitan Borough of Woolwich, signify the association of that borough with the Royal Arsenal.

* Woolwich Arsenal

A Crossrail station is currently under construction at Woolwich Arsenal.

* Woolwich Arsenal ( DLR )

Vickers was a major employer and was linked to the Royal Arsenal at nearby Woolwich.

In 1913 Woolwich Arsenal F. C.

Arsenal Football Club ( then known as Royal Arsenal or Woolwich Arsenal ) played in Plumstead between 1886 and 1913, at various grounds in the Plumstead area, but mainly at the Manor Ground, on the north side of Plumstead High Street and the Invicta Ground, where the Royal Ordnance Factories F. C.

The Docklands Light Railway ( DLR ) was extended to Stratford in 1987, and to Stratford International in 2011, with services to Poplar, Canary Wharf, Lewisham, London City Airport, the Excel Centre, Beckton and Woolwich Arsenal.

Between 1812 and 1816, a canal was built ( by convicts ) to take materials ( such as Timber ) from the River Thames to Woolwich Royal Arsenal.

Pilkington Canal ( also called Broadwater Canal )-used to connect to Woolwich Arsenal, now remain as a water feature in the estates

Many municipal services are provided through the Regional Municipality of Waterloo ( often referred to as Waterloo Region or the Region of Waterloo ), which consists of the cities of Waterloo, Kitchener, and Cambridge, and the townships of Woolwich, Wilmot, Wellesley, and North Dumfries.

In 2012, the local council approved plans to relocate its offices into the former headquarters of The Woolwich, which had lain empty since 2006.

It was formed in 1965 by merging the former areas of the metropolitan boroughs of Greenwich and most of Woolwich ( with the exception of North Woolwich, north of the river, which became part of the London Borough of Newham ).

The Woolwich Ferry takes vehicle traffic and links the North Circular Road to the South Circular Road which runs through the borough.

( There are several other military facilities in the general vicinity, which is also close to a surviving base in Woolwich, long home to the Royal Artillery and now to other parts of the British Army.

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.

The principal roads through the Borough include the A2 trunk road ; the A20 ( Sidcup By-Pass ) which generally marks its southern boundary ; the A207, which is the route of the erstwhile Watling Street ; the A206 which takes traffic from Woolwich and Dartford ; and the latter's newer counterpart, the A2016 through Thamesmead.

North Woolwich also became part of the borough ( previously being in the Metropolitan Borough of Woolwich, in the County of London ) along with a small area west of the River Roding which had previously been part of the Municipal Borough of Barking.

Greenwich is covered by the Greenwich West and Peninsula wards of the London Borough of Greenwich, which was formed in 1965 by merging the former Metropolitan Borough of Greenwich with that part of the Metropolitan Borough of Woolwich which lay south of The Thames.

The boundaries of Georgetown-on-Arrowsic were enlarged to encompass most of present-day Phippsburg, Bath ( which then included West Bath ), Woolwich and Georgetown.

Barlow made several contributions to the theory of strength of materials, including Essay on the strength and stress of timber ( 1817 ) which contains experimental data collected at Woolwich.

Many municipal services are provided through the Regional Municipality of Waterloo ( often referred to as Waterloo Region or the Region of Waterloo ), which consists of the cities of Cambridge, Kitchener, and Waterloo, and the townships of Woolwich, Wilmot, Wellesley, and North Dumfries.

Woolwich Arsenal was expanded in 2009, when Transport for London completed the construction of an extension of the London City Airport branch of the Docklands Light Railway from King George V to Woolwich Arsenal, which is the branch's new terminus.

Upon graduation, he proved to be qualified for a military career at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, from which, in due course, he went to the Royal School of Military Engineering at Chatham.

The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst was formed in 1947 on the site of the former Royal Military College at Sandhurst from a merger between the Royal Military Academy in Woolwich ( which trained officers for the Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers from 1741 to 1939 ) and the Royal Military College ( 1802 to 1939 ).

Perceval ’ s early childhood was spent at Charlton House, which his father had taken to be near Woolwich docks.

Trenchard failed the Woolwich examinations twice and was then relegated to applying for the Militia which had lower entry standards.

The Select Committee announced an interim decision in July 2006 which called on the Promoter to add a station at Woolwich.

The remaining tunnelling contract ( C310, Plumstead to North Woolwich ), which included a tunnel under the Thames, was awarded to Hochtief and J. Murphy & Sons in 2011.