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The circumstances of this bombing are described at Firemen Remembered: "Shortly after 1.30am, … crews …. were assembled in the school playground standing-by to be sent on to where they were needed most when a land-mine, one of the most violently destructive weapons at that stage of the war, landed on the roof of the school and dropped down a stairwell at the bottom of which was the watchroom where ….  two women were killed outright. The men waiting outside were caught by the blast, which also demolished two thirds of the school building, and were buried by falling masonry."

The 1943 film 'The Bells Go Down' shows new recruits joining an AFS group based at a school in the East End.