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...
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The building is home to the Study Society. Founded in 1951 by Dr. F. C. Roles and his friends who had been associates of Ouspensky, the ...
Lt, Henry R. Bowers lived here, 1891 - 1897, perished with Captain Scott in the Antarctic, 1912. Bexley Civic Society
In memory of the residents of University College Hall who gave their lives in the Great War 1914 - 1918. {This is followed by a list of ...
Charles Darwin, 1809 - 1882, naturalist, lived in a house on this site, 1838 - 1842. London County Council
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