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
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
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...
John McDouall Stuart, 1815 - 1866, first explorer to cross Australia, lived and died here. London County Council
The boundary wall and gate pillars and the Highmaster's House are all that remain of St Paul's School buildings. The redbrick, very orna...
English Heritage Dame Edith Evans, 1888 - 1976, actress, lived here.
Both the views depicted on the plaque are "protected". Referring to the view of the river, Country Life explains that "... the 1902 Rich...
English Heritage Sir William Walton, 1902-1983, composer, lived here.
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