Memories of Research at Royal Gunpowder Mills

For over 200 years Waltham Abbey was one of the

UK's premier sites for the development of rocket

motors, gun propellants and explosives.

From Congreve's "rockets red glare" to launching

satellites into orbit, Waltham Abbey did them all.

Protected by the Official Secrets Act much of its

work still remains classified, but what was it like

to work there, to be one of Britain's boffins?

This book gives accounts from some of the

scientists and engineers who worked there during

the White Heat of Technology and the Cold War

era.