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
It was built when it was found that there were low stocks of artillery - but ...
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...
Margaret McMillan C.H, C.B.E, 1860 - 1931, & Rachel McMillan, 1859 - 1917, social reformers and educationalists, lived here, 1910 - 1...
The plaque made us think initially that the land used for the football club was adjacent to the Sutton Adult School (now the Thomas Wall ...
This plaque appears to be that oddest of things, a plaque commemorating a lost plaque but it's not lost, it's in the Museum of London.
Frankie Howerd OBE, 1917 - 1992, comedian lived here, 1966 - 1992. The Dead Comics Society
Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, 1864 - 1958, creator of the League of Nations, lived here. Greater London Council
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