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
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came a...
Invented by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin in 1900. London was first targeted w...
Lenin stayed at this address (formerly numbered 21) in 1908 whilst reading at the British Museum and writing 'Materialism and Empirio-cri...
We thank History of Kilburn and West Hampstead for the photo. They published it in connection with their biography of Edwin Levy who owne...
Commemorating the Centenary of Cinema 1996 Cecil Hepworth (1874 - 1953) British film pioneer, lived in this house as a child. In associ...
This fountain is at the west end of the garden in front of the Town Hall, on Fairfield Street. It is surrounded by memorials as follows: ...
To the right of our picture there is a section of London Wall with a modern information board sticking out of the ground. We much prefer ...
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