On this site at 12.15 am on the 25th August 1940 fell the first bomb on the City of London in the Second World War.
EC2, Fore Street, Roman House
The engraved stone is below the window on the ground floor flank wall. Interesting that the stone uses the exact same wording as the commemorative board.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
First City bomb in WW2
Sorry, we've done no research on WW2, it's just too big a subject. But do vis...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
First City bomb in WW2
The black and white photo showing the lost commemorative board comes from A L...
Jeanne Rathbone has posted about O'Casey and his time in Battersea, with extracts from his Autobiography.
The plaque seems to have been erected to celebrate 34 years which seems odd.
Trying to understand the right hand panel: the 'south vestry' is probably the small flat-roofed extension, similar to this one, but on th...
"God created man to be immortal" is from the Wisdom of Solomon 2:23.
Westminster City Council Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author, 1859 - 1930, worked and wrote here in 1891. Arthur Conan Doyle Society
Member of the staff of A. W. Gamage Ltd and/or Benetfink & Co. Ltd. Killed in WW1.
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