A residential, retail and leisure development of the former Royal Arsenal site in Woolwich.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Royal Arsenal Riverside
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Arsenal Football Club founded
{Inscription on the plinth:} Royal Arsenal Riverside Royal Borough of Greenwi...
Duke of Wellington - Woolwich
Originally erected, in 1848, at the Tower of London where the Board of Ordnan...
Verbruggen's House - 2
The plaque refers to the Verbruggens as brothers, when in fact they were fath...
Other Subjects
West Hackney Almshouses / Cooke's Rents
Mainly from British History Online we've learnt the following: In 1740 Thomas Cooke, a director of the Bank of England, built almshouses, Cooke’s Rents, for 8 poor families with small children, and...
1 memorial
Thomas Ripley
Master Carpenter. Designed the Ripley block of the present Admiralty building in 1726.
1 memorial
1 memorial
Sir Henry Meux
Henry Bruce Meux was born at 41 Brook Street into a wealthy brewery family and became the 3rd baronet. Theobalds, the family country seat, had been closed as a result of his father's insanity, but,...
1 memorial
1 memorial
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New River Head windmill
EC1, Amwell Street
The Round House Remains of the windmill used c.1709 - 1720 to pump water from the round pond to the upper pond (now Claremont Square rese...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
siege of Cadiz
Part of the Peninsular Wars which were part of the Napoleonic Wars. The French besieged Cadiz, where the Spanish government was based, and the Portuguese and British assisted the Spanish. On 22 ...
1 memorial
Giuseppe Mazzini
Italian patriot. Born Genoa. Died Pisa. An exile in London for much of his life from 1837 onwards. Byronico has information about 10 addresses where he lived in London. He often stayed near, or wi...
4 memorials
sculptural group 3 - Beatty
SW1, Trafalgar Square
Jellicoe and Beatty had each, at different times, been commander of the Grand Fleet in WW1 and had died within 5 months of each other, wh...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
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