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
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...
LookandLearn has a photo of the building, no.1, before it was demolished. The Dickens relief also commemorates his stay at this address.
This plaque is smaller than usual and not the expected ceramic. We think it was erected in 2013 and might be a glossy or plasticised pape...
Westminster City Council Pioneer aviator, sailor and author, Sir Francis Chichester KBE, 1901 - 1972, single-handed circumnavigator of t...
'The Uncommerical Traveller' was the name of articles that Dickens wrote for his own journal 'All the Year Round'.
