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The memorial can be seen in our photo, between the two pedestrians and the tree.

2020: Via Facebook Peter Hill provided some first-hand information about this bomb: "We lived at 5 Nunhead Lane opposite the factory. All our windows & doors were blown out when the first bomb dropped on the Rye about 7.30. My grandfather & grandmother were in the hallway clearing up. I was just in the shelter & my mother was outside boiling a kettle on a Primus. When my grandfather heard the bomb cut out overhead he rushed my grandmother down into the shelter grazing her leg. He had just shut the door when the bomb exploded. My aunt, who had been to phone my uncle to come and help clear up from the first one, was just outside when the second one landed & she was buried in what had been our cellar. She was rescued alive with only a broken collarbone. I was 7 years old at the time." Thank you Peter, that's a vivid account.