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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Marie Joanne Hartley
Marie Joanne Targett was born on 18 June 1971 in Blackburn, Lancashire, the elder of the two children of John Norman Targett (1946-2007) and Barbara Targett née Sutcliffe (d.2008). Her brother, Ian...
3 memorials
Arthur Frederick Corking
Killed in the Moorgate tube disaster and shown incorrectly on the memorial in Finsbury Square, London, EC2 as 'CORKING, ALFRED'. We originally listed him as Alfred Corking as this is how he is rem...
1 memorial
Stratford Underground crash
The accident, caused by driver error after a signal failure, occurred on the Central line of the London Underground. A signal in the tunnel between Stratford and Leyton had been damaged, and this a...
1 memorial
1 memorial
Michael Whittard
Died, aged 39, when a construction crane crashed. See Martin Burgess for details of the crash.
1 memorial
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Black Prince Road ceramics - plaque 08
SE11, Black Prince Road, Tunnel underneath railway bridge
These lovely ceramics plaques were installed some time in or before 2008. There are 12 oval ceramics of which 7 nos 1-7) are mosaic and r...
1 subject commemorated
Thorney Island Society
A local conservation and amenity group founded in 1985 (following a campaign to save Old Westminster Library) to protect and represent the interests of residents and businesses in the 'village' of ...
1 memorial
Mayflower Compact
The first governing document of Plymouth Colony. Written by the 'Separatists' who were passengers on the Mayflower. It was signed by forty-one members while the ship was anchored in what is now Pro...
1 memorial
Amy Garvey
W10, Bassett Road, 1
Amy lived here for 26 years. Unveiled by Jamaica's High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Burchell Whiteman.
2 subjects commemorated,
3 creators
1 memorial
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