Erection date: 16/5/2011
Coronation Avenue
In memory of over 160 people who died when a high explosive bomb fell on this building during the Blitz on 13th October 1940.
Plaque unveiled by the broadcaster George Alagiah, a local resident.
N16, Victorian Road, Junction with Stoke Newington Road
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesof london.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Coronation Avenue bombing
Coronation Avenue consisted of a terrace of about 15 shops with five storeys ...
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...
2023: the building seems to be used by the Monkey Puzzle Day Nursery and also by the Godiva Printing Shop.
The plaque is not very interesting but the brickwork on this building is so attractive that we were glad to find an excuse to include it....
Referring to the plaques on this second landing, as viewed by the people in our photo who are reading them the right way up: - at the lef...
From Toynbee Hall we learn that the original 1884 building was destroyed by WW2 bombs. The Gatehouse was built on the site in 1965, “with...
The plaque is on the ground near the Lewisham war memorial.
Character created by Mary Shelley in her eponymous book. The Somers Town Mural supposedly shows "Head of Frankenstein". We can't see it in the mural but suspect that the head of Frankenstein's mon...
Admiral. The date given is his baptism, in Bridgwater, Somerset where there is now a museum and a statue. First fought for Cromwell in the army and was then appointed "General at Sea". 1652-3 he wa...
Flight BE548 crashed within 3 minutes of taking off from Heathrow. It came down in a field near Staines. 188 died.
With one clue from a Council document related to the impressive Time Flies clock tower, we searched high and low for a "Mrs Galpin" who could have been the donor but found nothing to substantiate t...
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