Erection date: 1993
{On an accompanying plaque:}
Workers of Woolwich - Martin Williams
Commissioned and sponsored by British Rail Community Unit and University of Greenwich, assisted by London Borough of Greenwich.
1993
The mural depicts the activities carried out by workers at the former Royal Arsenal.
SE18, Woolwich New Road, Platform 1, Woolwich Arsenal Station
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Workers of Woolwich
Site of armaments manufacture, ammunition proofing, and explosives research f...
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Workers of Woolwich
The London Borough of Greenwich was formed by the amalgamation of the Metropo...
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The quotation on the main plinth is adapted from the Apocryphal book of the Wisdom of Solomon, Chapter 3, Verses 2 - 4.
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July 2023 - We have now visited the site 3 times, but on each occasion the garden has been padlocked. We found the two other memorials cl...
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