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
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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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Gresley Society Trust
From the Trust's website: "Our purpose is to study and celebrate the life and works of Sir Nigel Gresley in particular, and the works and achievements of the London & North Eastern Railway in g...
1 memorial
L. G. Mouchel & Partners Ltd
Andrew Behan found this company, still existing in 1961. It was an engineering company formed in 1897 by a Louis Gustave Mouchel and incorporated as a limited company in 1908. It specialised in th...
1 memorial
F. Douglas Barton
Borough Engineer and Surveyor in the Borough of Hammersmith in 1948. Our colleague Andrew Behan has researched this man: Frank Douglas Barton was born in 1888 in Stockport, Cheshire, the son of Fr...
1 memorial
First residential roof-top wind turbines
The published benefits of domestic wind turbines vary enormously. Taking a very rough average, each one saves about five tonnes of carbon dioxide being released into the atmosphere each year, and p...
1 memorial
1 memorial
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