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...
In 1997 someone saw this plaque and posted about it on an on-line forum, with no photo. All the post said was that the plaque commemorat...
A building had been here, about where this monument is, since before 1430. It became the vicarage but its large garden was much reduced b...
The ACLL plaque is on the wall to the left, hidden by the wall-mounted No Entry sign. Note: despite their appearance, neither of these t...
Cons was not herself wealthy so it seems odd to describe her as a philanthropist, and the plaque has her birth year wrong, according to t...
Very similar iron plaques can be found on mooring bollards around the docks. The design looks early 19th century to us so perhaps this p...
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