Event    From 25/8/1940  To 25/8/1940

First WW2 bomb on City of London

Event

This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
First WW2 bomb on City of London

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First City bomb in WW2

On this site at 12.15 am on the 25th August 1940 fell the first bomb on the C...

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First City bomb in WW2 - lost

The black and white photo showing the lost commemorative board comes from A L...

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Treaty of Paris

Treaty of Paris

The agreement in which Britain acknowledged the United States to be sovereign and independent. Drafted in 1782 and effective from 12 May 1784.  The 6 men named on the memorial were the representati...

Event, Peace, France, USA

1 memorial
Paddington Station centenary

Paddington Station centenary

London terminus for Great Western Railways since 1838. The current station was designed by Brunel in 1854. The underground arrived in 1863 and Paddington was the original western terminus for the...

Event, Engineering

1 memorial
murder in 1915

murder in 1915

The body of Alice Elizabeth Jarman, 40, of Notting Dale was found in a ditch in Hyde Park, near the Buck Hill bastion, on 19 February 1915.  A bayonet was found in a gully but was examined with neg...

Event, Tragedy

1 memorial
Failure of the World Disarmament Conference

Failure of the World Disarmament Conference

Wikipedia.  War in History refers to the efforts to prohibit aerial bombing.

Event, Peace, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
BBC Music Day

BBC Music Day

A UK-wide annual celebration of music that aims to unite communities and generations through their love of music. In 2017 in conjunction with the British Plaque Trust, 47 plaques celebrating a wide...

Event, Music / songs

3 memorials

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Caxton Hall - foundation stone

Caxton Hall - foundation stone

SW1, Caxton Street, 10, Caxton Hall

The foundation stone is low down at the right hand side of the building. Above each of the two statues is a bust, both of the Greek god v...

5 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
P. J. Garland
War dead, WW2
1 memorial
Bateman at IC

Bateman at IC

SW7, Prince Consort Road, Imperial College

This building, the Royal School of Mines, (1906, Aston Webb). has 34 memorials: a foundation stone, 2 busts and 30 scientists' surnames p...

1 subject commemorated
Silver Jubilee urn

Silver Jubilee urn

WC1, Queen Square

Hughes became Poet Laureate a few years later and Larkin was of similar standing. In our view their lines for the jubilee do not greatly ...

2 subjects commemorated, 2 creators
F. A. Terry

F. A. Terry

Worked at Willesden Garage and killed in WW1.

Person

War dead, WW1
1 memorial