Erection date: 1994
Remembering Woolworths, 168 people killed in Britain's worst V2 attack, 25th November 1944.
Deptford History Group 1994.
SE14, New Cross Road, 277 - 281
Unusually, at this site, there are three plaques commemorating the same event.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
New Cross V2 attack - plaque 1
The rocket landed on the Woolworth's building at 12.44pm It was a sunny Satur...
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...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
New Cross V2 attack - plaque 1
2012: we can find no information about this group, so possibly it is no longe...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
New Cross V2 attack - plaque 1
The photograph was taken some years ago and sadly since then, this plaque has...
We weren't expecting the investigation into this plaque to turn up anything particularly interesting but go to the page for vicar Birch a...
Our colleague Andrew Behan has done some research and found that Job H. Drain was living here with his family from about 1976 - at least ...
Plaque unveiled by Sir Steve Bullock, Mayor of Lewisham.
The Listing entry gives: "Artists' studios, now flats. 1885-6 with 1891 Annexe. John C P Higgs and Frank Rudkin, architects. Red Brick wi...
Site of St. Benet Gracechurch, demolished 1876. The Corporation of the City of London
