The Royal Brass Foundry, 1717, attributed to Sir John Vanbrugh. Following an explosion at Bagley's Foundry at Moorfields in 1716 which killed 17 people, the Board of Ordnance decided to build its own foundry at Woolwich. Guns for government service were cast here until c.1870.
SE18, Number One Street, Woolwich Arsenal
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Royal Brass Foundry
There was a gun-manufacturing foundry at Windmill Hill, now Tabernacle Street...
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...
Playwright and architect. Born in the parish of St Nicholas Acons, London, of...
Alexander Pope, 1688 - 1744, poet, lived in this row, Mawson's Buildings, 1716 - 1719. English Heritage
The park was built on former railway sidings and opened on 27 April 1983, to coincide with the 38th anniversary of the dropping of the at...
The plaque is just visible in our photo, peeping out from behind the foliage to the upper left of the door. 2023: this house was for sal...
Here, in early life, lived John Henry Cardinal Newman. Born 1801 : Died 1890.
This stadium was demolished in 2016 and we can't find out what happened to the plaques so we have marked them all as lost.
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