The V1 flying bomb,(also known as a doodlebug), fell in Carrington Road, killing 10 people and injuring 107. It destroyed 20 homes and caused damage to a further 700 in the surrounding area. Our picture shows part of the destruction.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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V1 flying bomb attack on Dartford
V1 Flying Bomb Carrington Road Sunday 6th August 1944. On this spot fell a V1...
Employed at the Silvertown Brunner Mond works and killed in the 1917 Silvertown explosion. Imperial War Museum has a page. Another page at the IWM gives: "Walter's brother, Edward, was killed in a...
Worked as a bank teller at the Co-op Bank, The Angel, Islington. The Tavistock Square memorial does not use 'Akhter' in her name. Shahara Akhter Islam was born in 1985 in Whitechapel, the daughter...
Lilibeth Tobilla Macalolooy was born on 2 November 1961 in the Philippines the daughter of Wincislao Macalolooy (1895-1975) and his second wife Natividad Macalolooy née Tobilla (1925-1998). Our Pi...
Stephen Augustine Hammond was born on 5 February 1958, the elder child of Augustine Hammond (1920-1983) and Constance M. Hammond née Stephenson (1925-2014). His birth was registered in the Stepney ...
Born as Caroline Anne Sneyd, daughter of Thomas Sneyd of Ashcombe Park, Staffordshire. Married Viscount Sherbrooke in 1885.
Soldier. Born John Vaughan Campbell. In 1916 he was a temporary lieutenant colonel commanding the 3rd Battalion, Coldstream Guards. On 15th September at Ginchy, France, during the Battle of the Som...
It seems there are no images of Craigen, hence the lack of anything behind the plexiglass - confirmed by the Alamy photo.
Christopher Pullen, aged 12, died in Southdown House when a heavy steel fire door, lying off its hinges, propped up in the stairwell of a block of flats, fell on him causing fatal injuries. The doo...
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