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...
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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
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