Verbruggens House
Verbruggen brothers - master founders in Woolwich
Grade II listed building, built 1772 - 3.
RARE - Royal Arsenal Riverside Explore
The plaque refers to the Verbruggens as brothers, when in fact they were father and son.
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 - 2
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 subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Verbruggen's House - 2
A residential, retail and leisure development of the former Royal Arsenal sit...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Verbruggen's House - 2
Verbruggen's House, 1773, built for Jan & Pieter Vanbruggen, joint master...
Mann lived here in a very small flat, only 500sq ft. But it had superb light for his work.
Ronzo Crunchy the Credit Crunch Monster, 2008 - 2010, official mascot of the global recession.
April 2016: Our colleague Alan Patient reports that this plaque is now lost, or, at the very least hidden, behind the large "White Space...
A lovely and unusual plaque - we cannot discover when, nor by whom, it was erected.