Erection date: 6/9/2017
The Plough Brewery: built 1868; brewery 1868 - 1924; offices and workshops since 1968.
The Clapham Society
SW8, Wandsworth Road, 516
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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The Plough Brewery - Clapham Society
From Brewery History: "Thomas Woodward & Son, Plough Brewery, 516 Wandsw...
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The Plough Brewery - Clapham Society
A society founded with the aim of improving the quality of life in Clapham an...
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The Plough Brewery - Clapham Society
The plaque is inside the archway of the building. The photograph we took was ...
This plaque can be seen in our photo, slightly obscured by a satellite dish (oh, the irony). The day we visited was 15 April 2012, which...
English Heritage Sir Harry Ricardo, 1885 - 1974, mechanical engineer was born here.
The mews at the back of the property contained his studio and foundry, where he cast, amongst other works, Landseer's bronze lions for th...
The quotation is from Browning's poem 'Saul': "I have gone the whole round of creation: I saw and I spoke: I, a work of God's hand for t...
Roofing, structural glazing and building conservation contractors. The picture source link takes you to their full history page, with a video.
The Woolwich riverfront had been used as a dockyard and arms store for decades so having the foundry here made sense. It's construction was in response to a fatal explosion at Bagley's Foundry, jus...
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