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...
Mondrian was in a rented room in this lodging house, with shared bathroom, 1938-40. His room was on the ground floor, at the back. The ...
From Morden: "1824. Needful to enlarge the school, .. to ask Mr, Rice if he would sell adjoining cottage.. He declined to sell. Two new S...
The plaque is incorrect in giving Thomas Cubitt as the designer. It was in fact the, unrelated, Sir William Cubitt.
It seems likely that "1922" is the date the plaque was erected - exactly 50 years after Mazzini's death.
Sir Edwin Arnold, (1832-1904), poet and journalist, lived and died here. L.C.C.
In a house on this site lived William Hazlitt, 1829. The Corporation of the City of London
The bas-relief of Williams is by Sir Albert Gilbert.
The plaque is above the dark van on the left of our photo.
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