2-632-190 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Severndroog Castle, Shooter's Hill', 1807, (1912). Severndroog Castle, Oxleas Wood, Shooter's Hill in south-east London, designed by Richard Jupp (1728-1799). It was built to commemorate Commodore William James who, in April 1755, destroyed the island fortress of Suvarnadurg of the Maratha Empire on the western coast of India, between Mumbai and Goa. James died in 1783 and the castle was built as a memorial to him by his widow, Lady James of Eltham. From London - South of the Thames, by Sir Walter Besant. [Adam & Charles Black, London, 1912]