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Purfleet Barracks and the Royal Gunpowder Magazine. There were five storage buildings in which gunpowder produced at Waltham Abbey was kept pending further distribution. Each store could hold over 10,000 barrels of gunpowder. The magazines were designed to minimise the risk of explosion or to minimise damage in the event of an explosion, e.g. they were windowless and the roof voids were filled with sand. In 1962 the Ministry of Defence sold the site, now only magazine number 5 remains as a museum, the others were demolished to make way for a housing estate.
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purfleet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunpowder_magazine#Purfleet.2C_Essex '
