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...
{Around a pair of clasped hands, the initials PBS and the motto 'Unitate Fortior' (stronger through unity):} People's Building Society.
LookandLearn has a photo of the building, no.1, before it was demolished. The Dickens relief also commemorates his stay at this address.
The centenary plaque is on the west side of the western pillar at the main entrance. The brass plaque is on the floor of that entrance lo...
The feast of the conversion of St Paul is on 25th January which gives the erection date as 26th January 1874. Five years later this same ...
July 2017: Imgur has a photo showing this plaque replaced with a photo of Fury on a sheet of A4 paper, so we've marked the plaque as lost...
James Henry Skipsey is the 1st on the right of the seven boys sitting in the photograph of the scout troop. He was born on 15 February 1900 in Walworth, the eldest of the thirteen children of Jame...
Born York. Bishop of London 1787 - 1809. The first senior church official to support the abolition of slavery. Died at Fulham Palace.
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