This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
First WW2 bomb on City of London
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First City bomb in WW2
On this site at 12.15 am on the 25th August 1940 fell the first bomb on the C...
First City bomb in WW2 - lost
The black and white photo showing the lost commemorative board comes from A L...
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Macclesfield Bridge explosion
From London Gardens Trust: "The bridge over the Regent's Canal to the north west of the Park was originally called North Gate Bridge but was re named in honour of Lord Macclesfield, the Chairman of...
1 memorial
Surrey Docks fire
The docks were set on fire in the first raid of the Blitz. Our picture source gives: "... a firestorm in the docks that blazed from end to end for a whole week. ... A third of the warehouses and tr...
1 memorial
Coronation Avenue bombing
Coronation Avenue consisted of a terrace of about 15 shops with five storeys of flats above and behind. The air raid shelter was beneath three of the shops. It suffered a direct hit by a bomb, resu...
1 memorial
Long Parliament
Convened by Charles I, this got its strange name because, through an act of Parliament (passed by, erm, itself) it could not be dissolved unless the members agreed and they didn't, not until after ...
1 memorial
Operation Overlord
The allied campaign in WW2 for the liberation of North West Europe including the Normandy D-Day landings.
3 memorials