Verbruggen's House, 1773, built for Jan & Pieter Vanbruggen, joint master founders at the Royal Brass Foundry. Subsequently used by the Ordnance Board under various titles until 1939.
SE18, Plumstead Road
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Verbruggen's House - 1
The Woolwich riverfront had been used as a dockyard and arms store for decade...
Responsible for the supply of armaments and munitions to the army and the nav...
Master gun-founder and artist. Born at Enkhuizen in the Netherlands. After an...
Gun-founder. Son of Jan Verbruggen. The picture shows the second machine buil...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Verbruggen's House - 1
The plaque refers to the Verbruggens as brothers, when in fact they were fath...
Plaques really should contain enough information to explain their presence at a particular site. This one doesn't so we've done the work...
Near this spot the General Letter Office stood in Post House Yard, 1653 - 1666. Here were struck in 1661 the first postmarks in the world...
We'd given up the original plaque as lost, and had never even seen the second one, until 2022 when Londonist reported on this arrangement...
The errors in the inscriptions (can be viewed at Victorian Web) are presumably deliberate, and mean something. But what? We can find no...
Merge with Huskisson Churchill at number 29 lived in the house on the left, Huskisson at number 28, on the right.
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