24th September 1917
13 people were killed and 22 injured near this spot on the steps of the old Bedford Hotel by a 112 lb bomb dropped by a Gotha in one of London's first night air raids.
WC1, Southampton Row, Bedford Hotel
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Bedford Hotel bomb
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came a...
This page brings together all the memorials that we have for civilians killed...
2016: We've replaced our 2012 dull and cold-looking photos with those our colleague, Alan Patient, took on his sunny visit. In the 19th ...
July 2015 The Mirror reported that 4 of these plaques (Benny Hill, Tommy Cooper, Sid James and Irene Handl) were stolen just prior to the...
Thomas Cubitt, 1788 - 1855, master builder, lived here. London County CouncilÂ
We thank our colleague Andrew Behan for researching the names on this memorial. 2016: We attended an event at UCL at which reference was...
We wish the plaque explained Steele's connection with this site / building. We've read that the new Hicks House on the Frean Street/Thurl...
Born Coventry. Larkin spent 30 years in the northern port city of Hull working as a university librarian. He shunned the limelight, refusing to appear on television and turning down a request to be...
Employed at the Holloway bus/tram garage - Pemberton Gardens. Served and was killed in WW1.
