Erection date: 21/5/2011
In memory of all those killed and injured at this site by a V2 rocket which destroyed the Crooked Billet on Sunday 19th November 1944.
Not Forgotten.
BR2, Southborough Lane, 286, The Crooked Billet Harvester
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Crooked Billet - V2 attack
The attack happened when the pub was full of people enjoying a night out. Twe...
The V1 and V2 rockets were developed as a reaction to the heavy allied bombin...
Sorry, we've done no research on WW2, it's just too big a subject. But do vis...
{Beneath the Dartford Council coat of arms:} Richard Trevithick, 1771 - 1833, pioneering engineer and inventor of the world's first steam...
Details of this repair work are given at British History Online. Until the post-war reconstruction it seems that these were the only sign...
Greater London Council Alfred Lord Milner, 1854 - 1925, statesman, lived here.
Both the views depicted on the plaque are "protected". Referring to the view of the river, Country Life explains that "... the 1902 Rich...
W. Somerset Maugham's novel Of Human Bondage (P654-5) contains a lovely description of daybreak seem from Westminster Bridge c.1898 which...
This object is known as an armillary sphere, or astrolab - a skeletal celestial sphere showing the rotation of the heavenly bodies, aroun...
Leonard Huxley 1860 - 1933 Julian Huxley 1887 - 1975 Aldous Huxley 1894 - 1963 Men of science and letters lived here. English Heritage
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