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...
We found the punctuation on this plaque so peculiar we have transcribed it exactly. Just shows that way back in 1858 even people in a po...
Pete Curran MP 1860 - 1910 the pioneering socialist, trade union leader and first Labour MP for Jarrow lived at 1 Pretoria Avenue, since ...
The little plaque that you can see at the top of the picture is disappointingly dull; it reads "This street called Hays Lane has not been...
Left to right down the plaques are: Forsyth, Davis, Garland, Houdini, which we think is the sequence of erection.
We believe the Stephen Lawrence Centre was built by and for the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust.
Statesman and poet. Born at the family home Wallingford House (where the Old Admirality Building now is). A baby when his father, the 1st Duke, was assassinated, he was brought up alongside Charles...
From British History: "...'Pope's Head', mentioned as early as the reign of Edward IV. Here, in the reign of Henry VI., wine was sold at a penny a pint, without charge for bread."
The Latin motto "Primus Omnium" translates as "first of all", referring to the fact that the Marine Police was established over 30 years ...
Comments are provided by Facebook, please ensure you are signed in here to see them