Gun-founder. Son of Jan Verbruggen. The picture shows the second machine built by the Verbruggens.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Pieter Verbruggen
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Verbruggen's House - 1
Verbruggen's House, 1773, built for Jan & Pieter Vanbruggen, joint master...
Verbruggen's House - 2
The plaque refers to the Verbruggens as brothers, when in fact they were fath...
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Peter Frank Stott
Civil engineer. Eight years working in Australia. Director of Highways and Transportation at the GLC 1964-67. President of the Institute of Civil Engineers in 1990. Died Devon.
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2 memorials
Robert Stephenson
Railway and civil engineer. Born near Newcastle upon Tyne. Son of George Stephenson who built "the Rocket" locomotive in 1827. Robert was Chief Engineer of the London to Birmingham Railway which ...
4 memorials
Henry Watson Dodds
Junior Assisant 4th Engineer on the RMS Titanic. There would appear to some confusion as to the correct name of this man. Some records show him as Renny Dodds, but he can also be found on memorial...
1 memorial
Dial Square
This arch overlooked Dial Square, named for the sundial in the centre. It is the site of the Royal Gun Factories where gun barrels were bored out. In 1886, the workers here formed a football club -...
1 memorial
5 memorials
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John Keats birthplace
EC2, Moorgate, 85
In a house on this site, the "Swan & Hoop", John Keats, poet, was born, 1795. The Corporation of the City of London
2 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
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