The Royal Brass Foundry in Woolwich was already producing carriages as well as guns but in 1803-5 a building dedicated to carriages was constructed - see picture. John's Military History, the source of our photo, also provides some details on the activities in this building.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Royal Carriage Department
Commemorated ati
Turkish gun
As our detail picture we have this most unlikely-looking crocodile, grinning ...
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Worshipful Company of Plumbers
Ordinances 1365, Grant of Arms 1588. The Plumbers' Hall used to stand in Chequer Yard, where Cannon Street station now stands. The first hall was destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666. Rebuilt, it co...
4 memorials
Piers Nicholson
Sundial designer. Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Tylers and Bricklayers. His website. The photo is dated 2011. Son of environmentalist Max Nicholson.
2 memorials
1 memorial
Mortlake Tapestry Works
Barnes History has a nice hand-drawn map with a pin showing the location of these Tapestry Works, and it gives the history of the site. John Dee (1527 -1608) lived in a house on this site (with a l...
1 memorial
Rex Silver
Textile designer. Born Reginald in Islington, the son of Arthur. In 1914 he was living at 1 Haarlem Road, Hammersmith. In 1922 he married Sybil L. Peerless in Hendon, Middlesex. At the time of h...
1 memorial