On the first day of the Blitz it seems that a 50kg bomb fell through a ventilation shaft and exploded in the basement of the market which had been designated an air-raid shelter for the local people. The number of people killed varies depending on source but the memorial lists 45 names.
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Columbia Market attack
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Columbia Market air raid shelter memorial
In memory of those who lost their lives when a bomb penetrated the Columbia M...
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Roger Brown
A software engineer, killed in the Ladbroke Grove rail disaster, aged 44. Andrew Behan has kindly carried out further research: Roger Stanley Brown was born on 14 April 1955, in Whitley Bay, North...
1 memorial
1 memorial
Catholic martyrs at the Tyburn gallows
105 Catholic martyrs lost their lives at the Tyburn gallows, 1535 - 1681. The Tyburn Convent website explains but only lists a few. We have found other memorials to a few of them: John Houghton a...
3 memorials
victims of Human BSE (vCJD)
According to the list on JusticeforAndy there have been about 160 victims in the UK, "people who have died, been diagnosed or affected by vCJD." The disease is too complex for us to attempt to summ...
1 memorial
District Officer Charles Edward Pearson
Died at the Siege of Sidney Street. Andrew Behan has researched this man: District Officer Charles Edward Pearson was born on 2 August 1869 in Shadwell, a son of Henry Grove Pearson and Sarah Pea...
1 memorial
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