Armouries

There is The Butterfly Farm, home to hundreds of exotic butterflies, insects and beetles; and Stratford Armouries, on the former RAF Snitterfield site; plus boating on the River Avon.

It has developed long-range drones that have hit oil depots and refineries as well as armouries.

The world’s central banks now have precious little ammunition left in their armouries – as opposed to the US and Iran – to counter a war-induced shock recession.

However the past year has seen several of the big brands - including Dior, Nars and Chanel – add lip powders to their armouries, whose colours are chic, matte and immensely wearable.

Josh Miller is the inaugural CEO of the Edmonton Screen Industry Office, housed in the Prince of Wales Armouries.

Presented by the Royal Armouries, all proceeds from the one-off concert at Central Hall will go to mental health charities Help for Heroes, Combat Stress and Heads Together.

Special openings across the region include Fountains Abbey, the Royal Armouries Museum and the M&S Company Archives – with every single walk, talk, opening and exhibition FREE to visit!

A large scale example of the ABS mail used in the Lord of the Rings can be seen in the entrance to the Royal Armouries museum in Leeds in the form of a large curtain bearing the logo of the museum.

A private investor purchased the historic site and built a new hotel (Delta London Armouries, 1996)in its place preserving the shell of the historic building.

As 16th-century chronicler Raphael Holinshed said the Tower became used more as "an armouries and house of munition, and thereunto a place for the safekeeping of offenders than a palace roiall for a king or queen to sojourne in".

By about 1400 the full harness of plate armour had been developed in armouries of Lombardy.

In order to obtain weapons, the Irgun carried out "confiscation" operations – they robbed British armouries and smuggled stolen weapons to their own hiding places.

It opened to the public in 1660, though there had been paying privileged visitors to the armouries displays from 1592.

Just over £4,000 was spent in 1663 on building a new storehouse, now known as the New Armouries in the inner ward.

To this end, capacity-building for the physical management of arms and bookkeeping was being developed, and new storage facilities and armouries for weapons and explosives were being constructed.