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
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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...
Unveiled on World Town Planning Day 2019 (8th November).
London Borough of Southwark Richard Church, 1893-1972, writer and poet, lived here, 1905-1912. Plaque renewed 2010.
The plaque is at the top of the grey column to the right of the central door. Presumably there is evidence that Blanke performed at Green...
This plaque apparently was removed from the house when it was demolished; Ornamental Passions says it came off a garden entrance. The fa...
This stone was unveiled by Mrs Anderson. 1925: The South Ward was erected and the foundation stone was laid by Mrs Anderson. The memoria...
Punch's Puppet Show was first performed in England and witnessed by Samuel Pepys 1662, in Covent Garden. And still popular in 2015.
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