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...
{Left hand plaque:} The Nightingale badge awarded between 1925 - 1996. {Central plaque:} The Florence Nightingale Garden This garden cel...
Sir Charles Barry, 1795 - 1860, architect, lived and died here. L.C.C.Â
The carving on the plinth is attractive with a snake knotted into a figure of eight above the lettering, art nouveau capitals at each cor...
This building was the County High School for Girls opened in 1908. The children's author Winifred Darch (1884 - 1960) was a teacher here....
The left-most of 3 plaques on the back wall of the garden.
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