This plaque commemorates the fifty-one people killed by a V1 flying bomb which landed on the market place in Lewisham High Street on the 28th June 1944, installed by the generous support of Marks and Spencer.
This brass plaque on the pavement had become badly worn and a new one was erected on a nearby wall.
SE13, Lewisham High Street, 122, Marks and Spencer
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Lewisham V1 rocket attack - original
The worst V1 attack on South London. The rocket struck the busy street market...
The V1 and V2 rockets were developed as a reaction to the heavy allied bombin...
This page brings together all the memorials that we have for civilians killed...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Lewisham V1 rocket attack - original
Retail group specialising in clothing and food, founded by Michael Marks and ...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Lewisham V1 rocket attack - original
Plaque unveiled by Heidi Alexander, M.P. for Lewisham East, and Councillor Al...
The plaque is not clear about what was constructed. The piers look original so we guess it was just the gates themselves.
From the ever-useful Lost Hospitals: In 1868 the Evangelical Protestant Deaconesses' Institution and Training Hospital moved into Avenue ...
This page of Pepys' Diary is given at The Diary of Samuel Pepys with lots of explanatory links.
See the mosaic for more information about the Casualty Department.
Unlike the majority of war memorials this was erected while the war continued. Hell-fire corner knows of a printed Order of Service in th...
The memorial can be seen in our photo, between the two pedestrians and the tree. 2020: Via Facebook Peter Hill provided some first-hand ...
In 1995 the tower was moved slightly from its original location to accommodate road layout changes. A drawing of 1900 shows it in its ori...
J. R. Ackerley, 1896 - 1967, writer and literary editor, lived here, 1941 - 1967. The Putney Society
Secretary to the Executive Committee for the Great Exhibition 1851.Architect and writer on art. Born near Devizes, Wiltshire. Died Dimlands Castle, Glamorgan.
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