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...
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English Heritage blue plaques may be technically the best but individual plaques like this lift the spirits. Margaret Drabble helped ere...
Lady Violet Bonham-Carter, Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury, 1887 - 1969, politician and writer, lived here. English Heritage
The wooden cross atop the building supports a neon cross, wired to an electrical box so rusty that we doubt it still lights the way for N...
This plaque has large blank areas which the local artists do their best to decorate.
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