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Plaque

New Cross V2 attack - plaque 1

Erection date: 1994

Inscription

Remembering Woolworths, 168 people killed in Britain's worst V2 attack, 25th November 1944.
Deptford History Group 1994.

Site: New Cross V2 attack (3 memorials)

SE14, New Cross Road, 277 - 281

Unusually, at this site, there are three plaques commemorating the same event.

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk

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This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
New Cross V2 attack - plaque 1

Subjects commemorated i

New Cross V2 attack

The rocket landed on the Woolworth's building at 12.44pm It was a sunny Satur...

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V1 and V2 rockets

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World War 2

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This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
New Cross V2 attack - plaque 1

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Deptford History Group

2012: we can find no information about this group, so possibly it is no longe...

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This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
New Cross V2 attack - plaque 1

Also at this site i

New Cross V2 attack - plaque 2

New Cross V2 attack - plaque 2

The photograph was taken some years ago and sadly since then, this plaque has...

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New Cross V2 attack - plaque 3

New Cross V2 attack - plaque 3

Plaque unveiled by Sir Steve Bullock, Mayor of Lewisham.

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