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...
We can't find the link from the QR code. The Sun reported the plaque's unveiling.
Unveiled on Hancock's 90th birthday by scriptwriters Galton and Simpson.
From Spoonfed: "From here, Orton wrote some of his most famous work, including his notorious diaries, which describe sexual escapades wit...
Via Facebook David Johnson pointed us to 47 Shoe Lane which gives lots of background information and photos about these plaques, McGill a...
Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association, founded October 1959, acquired and occupied these premises, the Groupwork Centre, Bayford Mews, E...
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