Erection date: 1994
Remembering Woolworths, 168 people killed in Britain's worst V2 attack, 25th November 1944.
Deptford History Group 1994.
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
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
New Cross V2 attack - plaque 1
The rocket landed on the Woolworth's building at 12.44pm It was a sunny Satur...
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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
2012: we can find no information about this group, so possibly it is no longe...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
New Cross V2 attack - plaque 1
The photograph was taken some years ago and sadly since then, this plaque has...
City of Westminster John Peake Knight, 1828 - 86, inventor of the world's first traffic lights which were erected here, 9th Dec. 1868. ...
Neither of these plaques can be seen in our photo. They are arranged symmetrically low down on either side of the entrance: Cadogan to th...
We'd given up the original plaque as lost, and had never even seen the second one, until 2022 when Londonist reported on this arrangement...
Plaque unveiled by Angela Smith Baroness Smith of Basildon, together with members of the Airship Heritage Trust. Wikipedia has this plaq...
The Taxation plaque is the one nearest the camera. The St Benet blue plaque is on the far wall and the St Benet inscribed stone plaque i...
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