The round stone in the roadway opposite this point marks the spot where, on Wednesday the 13th October 1915, at 9:25 pm a bomb from a German zeppelin struck the ground and exploded, shattering the chapel windows and doing other material damage.
WC2, Old Square, Chapel undercroft
In the photograph the plaque is just to the right of the arch.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Zeppelin bomb
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Invented by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin in 1900. London was first targeted w...
William F. Brown, Bishop of Pellla, born 1862, died 1951.
The spelling of "honor" is not a mistake on our part.
Erected between April 2019 and August 2020, by unknown.
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This verse play by TS Eliot concerning the murder of Becket, had its London premiere at The Duchess Theatre in 1936.
Stamp was a director of the Bank of England, not President. Northern Rock (previously Northern Rock Building Society) was a British bank...
Born Epworth, Lincolnshire. Renowned Hymn writer. 21 May 1738 experienced his conversion (3 days before his brother's) at John Bray’s home where he was seriously ill in bed. Buried at the old paris...
Tycoon and philantropist. Born London into a Jewish family who came to England from Spain in the 1650s. Married but childless. Worked in the family gold-dealing business until 1874 when he gave ...
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