Credit for this entry to:
Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Verbruggen's House - 1
It was built when it was found that there were low stocks of artillery - but ...
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...
According to Wikipedia the State of Victoria was founded in 1851 so this plaq...
Wikipedia gives the architects as "Davis and Emanuel Pevsner". We believe the...
It's believed that this plaque was put in place in the 1980s. Looking for an ...
