Erection date: 1993
Site of the worst civilian disaster of the second world war. In memory of 173 men, women and children who lost their lives on the evening of Wednesday 3rd March 1943 descending these steps to Bethnal Green underground air raid shelter. Not forgotten.
E2, Roman Road, Bethnal Green Tube station
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Bethnal Green WW2 disaster - plaque
The worst civilian disaster of WW2. 173 men, women and children lost their li...
Sorry, we've done no research on WW2, it's just too big a subject. But do vis...
This page brings together all the memorials that we have for civilians killed...
This arch was the entrance to Lloyd's 1928 building. 37 feet high, of Portland stone, it was retained and now, rather incongruously, sits...
This square occupies that space that was used by the cloisters of the priory. The south corner of the square is where in 1888 the body of...
We are told by our Brussels correspondent, Jean-Michel Pochet, that in 1922 a plaque was erected at Howland Street: "Le poète français Pa...
Sir Osbert Lancaster, 1908 - 1986, cartoonist and writer, was born here. English Heritage
With the two other architects Sir Herbert Baker and Alexander T Scott, Vernon Helbing built London House, Goodenough College in WC1 in 1972. It is now Grade II listed.
Broderers were workers in embroidery. The Hall existed in Gutter Lane from 1515 but was burnt in the Great Fire of 1666. It was rebuilt but little used, let and became a warehouse in the 19th cent...
The wording on the plaque does not make it clear that Lepidus died by suicide, which is our understanding, having read a number of tellin...
The left-most of 3 plaques on the back wall of the garden.
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