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
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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
2 memorials
Lalla Rookh - house
The house in which Moore wrote the poem Lalla Rookh was named for it, possibly by Moore himself. From British History Online: "Lalla Rookh {was a} two storeyed villa with wide verandah rented in 1...
1 memorial
Geoffrey Mills
Valuation surveyor involved in the creation of Burgess Park. He was piloting a Cessna 172 light aircraft when it crashed in a field near Biggin Hill Airfield, Kent. Three colleagues from work were ...
1 memorial
Cheyne House
The house and garden can be seen on a number of old maps, such as 1865 OS. From British History online (written in 1913): "Cheyne House consists of two or three different blocks of buildings, none...
1 memorial
Duke of Westminster, 6th, Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor
Born Omagh, N. Ireland. Extremely rich landowner, possessing vast chunks of Lancashire, Cheshire and Scotland as well as most of Mayfair and Belgravia. There are bits of Paris, Canada and Spain he ...
7 memorials
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William Hogarth
Satirical artist and illustrator. Trained as an engraver, he depicted the unseemly behaviour of contemporaries in works like 'The Beggar's Opera' (1728) and 'A Rake's Progress' (1732). Much of his ...
12 memorials
James Burbage
Actor, theatre builder and manager. Built The Theatre in Curtain Road.
1 memorial
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Belair House
SE21, Gallery Road
The plaque is not on Belair House itself which is set a long way back, but on the gatehouse which is on the road.
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