On this site at 12.15 am on the 25th August 1940 fell the first bomb on the City of London in the Second World War.
EC2, Fore Street, Roman House
The engraved stone is below the window on the ground floor flank wall. Interesting that the stone uses the exact same wording as the commemorative board.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
First City bomb in WW2
Sorry, we've done no research on WW2, it's just too big a subject. But do vis...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
First City bomb in WW2
The black and white photo showing the lost commemorative board comes from A L...
Site of the Medical Society of London 1787 - 1850 gifted by a founder, John Coakley Lettsom MD FRS. City of London
The plaque is just visible in our photo, peeping out from behind the foliage to the upper left of the door. 2023: this house was for sal...
While they lived there they called this "St Jude's Cottage". Initially it was a weekend retreat from Whitechapel, where Samuel was the v...
Israel Zangwill, 1864 - 1926, writer and philanthropist, lived here. London County Council
