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
Creations i
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
Sayes Court
Leased by John Evelyn from Charles II in 1663 and trashed by Peter the Great in 1698. The picture source gives a full history of the house which was badly damaged in WW2 and demolished in 1947. T...
1 memorial
Sir Raymond Unwin
Born Whiston, near Rotherham. Architect & town planner. With his partner Barry Parker he designed Letchworth Garden City in 1903 and Hampstead Garden Suburb in 1907. Died in Connecticut, where ...
2 memorials
Enfield school-house / station
the V&A (our picture source) hold in their collection part of the façade of this building (not just the photo but the bricks themselves). Alamy have a photo of the saved section of the façade e...
2 memorials
1 memorial
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British Broadcasting Corporation
Also known as the BBC or more affectionately, the Beeb. Founded as the British Broadcasting Company on 18 October 1922 to do test radio transmissions from Marconi House in the Strand. On 14 Nove...
38 memorials
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Sir William Empson
Poet and critic. Born near Goole, Yorkshire. Considered a great English critic, his best-known work is his first publication "Seven Types of Ambiguity" 1930. Married Hetta in 1941 and had two sons,...
2 memorials
Mappin and Webb, Poultry
12 - 13 Poultry. Built in 1870, designed by J. & J. Belcher. Was demolished after a long campaign in 1994 to make way for the delights of Number 1, Poultry. The man responsible, Lord Palumbo, ...
2 memorials
Ada Van Dantzig
Dantzig was a Dutch Jew who came to London to study. She returned to the Netherlands intending to help her family flee the Nazis. Instead she was captured and killed in Auschwitz, with most of her ...
War dead non-military, WW2
1 memorial
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