page_title: Gunpowder magazine
section_title: Berwick-upon-Tweed
hierarchical_section_title: Gunpowder magazine / In the United Kingdom / In England / Berwick-upon-Tweed
caption_attribution_description: English: Gunpowder magazine, Berwick-upon-Tweed The information board tells us that this was built in about 1750 as a gunpowder store for the garrison.
context_page_description: A gunpowder magazine is a magazine designed to store the explosive gunpowder in wooden barrels for safety. Gunpowder, until superseded, was a universal explosive used in the military and for civil engineering: both applications required storage magazines. Most magazines were purely functional and tended to be in remote and secure locations. They are the successor to the earlier powder towers and powder houses.
context_section_description: The Gunpowder Magazine in Berwick-upon-Tweed was built in 1745 to service Berwick Barracks and sited at a safe distance from them to the south. It is a solid stone building, heavily buttressed, windowless, stone roofed and enclosed by a stone wall. Along with Purfleet and Tilbury it is one of the few surviving eighteenth-century gunpowder magazines in the country.
caption: Gunpowder magazine, Berwick
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