The worst V1 attack on South London. The rocket struck the busy street market at 09.41 on a Friday morning. Numbers reported vary, but about 52 people were killed and 124 very seriously injured. The force of the blast destroyed shops on both sides of the High Street.
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Lewisham V1 rocket attack
Plaque unveiled by Heidi Alexander, M.P. for Lewisham East, and Councillor Al...
This brass plaque on the pavement had become badly worn and a new one was ere...
Royal Engineer killed by an exploding bomb while assisting in the attempt to disarm it. Andrew Behan has kindly carried out some research on this man: Lance Corporal Douglas Mills was born about 1...
Killed in the 2017 London Bridge attack. Aged 27, he was working as a waiter at the Boro Bistro.
Artist and craftsman. Born Lewes. 1825 moved to London and married his cousin Mary Harrild. He invented a commercially viable colour printing process, producing prints of religious and topical subj...
Broad-leaf Cockspur Hawthorn (Crataegus x prunifolia) planted in memory of Alistair David Berkley, law lecturer in the Polytechnic of Cen...
Member of the Building Committee to build the 1909 Bethnal Green Town Hall. He is possibly the Lance Corporal T. F. Salmon, 2nd Battalion, Royal West Surrey Regiment (Southwark Bridge Road, London...
Here and in neighbouring houses during the first half of the 20th century there lived several members of the Bloomsbury Group, including ...
Molecular biologist, geneticist and zoologist. Born Chicago as James Dewey Watson. 1962 awarded a Nobel Prize with Crick and Wilkins, for their work on the theory of a double-helix structure for DNA.
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