On this site at 12.15 am on the 25th August 1940 fell the first bomb on the City of London in the Second World War.
EC2, Fore Street, Roman House
The engraved stone is below the window on the ground floor flank wall. Interesting that the stone uses the exact same wording as the commemorative board.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
First City bomb in WW2
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This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
First City bomb in WW2
The black and white photo showing the lost commemorative board comes from A L...
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...
William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, 1708 - 1778, Prime Minister, lived in a house on this site.
The opening of a temporary library seems a rather minor event for which to get a King out of bed. Given the date perhaps the war had dama...
When, on the opening of the Law Courts in 1882, no 10 became vacant the Inns of Court Rifle Corps moved in. Lincoln's Inn provides a good...
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