Erection date: 25/11/2009
In memory of the 168 people who died and those injured in the V2 rocket attack that landed here 25th November 1944.
London Borough of Lewisham.
Plaque unveiled by Sir Steve Bullock, Mayor of Lewisham.
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 3
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 3
The Borough of Lewisham was formed as an amalgamation of the Metropolitan Bor...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
New Cross V2 attack - plaque 3
Remembering Woolworths, 168 people killed in Britain's worst V2 attack, 25th ...
The photograph was taken some years ago and sadly since then, this plaque has...
As far as we can tell this never was the site of Toynbee Hall which appears always to have been sited at 28 Commercial Street, as it stil...
The plaque is over the entrance to the restaurant.
John Constable, 1776 - 1837, artist, lived here in the summers of 1821 - 1822. Erected by the Hampstead Plaque Fund
Clementine Hozier, 1885 - 1977, lived here from 1903 until her marriage in 1908 to Winston Churchill. Royal Borough of Kensington and Che...
The clock can be seen in our site picture and you'll undestand why we chose to honour the plaque with a photo, in preference to the clock.
Ballet and opera theatre in St Petersburg. Named after the Empress Maria Alexandrovna, wife of Tsar Alexander II. Many of the works of Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky and Rimsky-Korsakov were premiered he...
Born Canterbury. Studied at Oxford, Rome and Vicenza. Physician to Henry VIII. After 11 years as a doctor he became a priest, giving away his wealth to promote the study of medicine and establis...
New Zealand sculptor. An obituary cites the London New Zealand War Memorial as one of his major achievements.
