For a fun-filled week of activities and adventure, The Royal Gunpowder Mills is not-to-be-missed this May Half Term. Presenting their hugely popular Spy Kids, there's a superb schedule of exciting events planned at their Secret Island.

Open daily between Saturday 24th May till Sunday 1st June, would be Spies and Secret Agents will be able to put their detective skills to the test with a range of covert operations and special secret missions.

From code breaking to all forms of espionage, the Spy Kids events will put all budding agents through their paces as the Lab Rats lead them through a series of tests to transform them into a real Secret Island Spy!

Professor Nitrate will be in his Mad Lab doing some seriously hush hush work and Spy Kids can help keep it secret. Special activities include the night vision and bomb disposal challenge, test speed and agility on the assault course, complete super sleuth training in the Mad Lab and on the test range,  test your detective skills in a top secret mission and discover wartime spies and spy equipment.

The Spy Kids training camp will be open at the test range where spies-in-training will be launching, catapulting, shooting and firing a variety of air and rocket cars, cannons and soft rifles in their very own test range trials.

In addition, spies will get to visit the Rocket Vault to see the rockets worked on when the Royal Gunpowder Mills was a top-secret government research facility.

Set in 170 acres of natural parkland, the Royal Gunpowder Mills mixes fascinating secret history, exciting science and beautiful surroundings to produce a different day out for all the family.  

Visitors can trace the history of explosives in a stunning audio-visual show, uncover the truth behind the infamous Gunpowder Plot, come face to face with some real space rockets and get to grips with more than 200 firearms ranging from rocket launchers to machine guns in the fascinating Armory. 

Royal Gunpowder Mills, Beaulieu Drive, Waltham Abbey.

For information please visit www.royalgunpowdermills.com or call 01992 707370

2014 Opening Times

Open Daily from 10am during School Holidays

Open every weekend 5th April – 28th September

Admission Prices:

Adults - £9.50, Children - £7.50 (3 to 15 years) Under 3 Free, Concessions £8.50 (over 60 years & students)     

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For further information please contact:

Melodie Manners

Tel: 01209 822194

Email: melodie@flamingo-marketing.co.uk