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
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...
Bobby Abel, "The Guv'nor", 1857 - 1936, one of England's finest ever cricketers, learned his cricket in Southwark Park. London Borough of...
Baldwin and his wife Lucy lived here 1913 - 1937. They must have liked the square because on his retirement they moved to number 69.
Patrick Hamilton, 1904-1962, novelist and playwright, lived here. English Heritage
It's not possible to read all the text but the 1345 date confirms that our (not very difficult) guess is probably correct - that the Gard...
Commemorating the Centenary of Cinema 1996. Robert W. Paul (1869 - 1943) British cinema pioneer, inventor, manufacturer, producer, exhib...
