The round stone in the roadway opposite this point marks the spot where, on Wednesday the 13th October 1915, at 9:25 pm a bomb from a German zeppelin struck the ground and exploded, shattering the chapel windows and doing other material damage.
WC2, Old Square, Chapel undercroft
In the photograph the plaque is just to the right of the arch.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Zeppelin bomb
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came a...
Invented by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin in 1900. London was first targeted w...
Plaque unveiled by Don Wales, grandson of Sir Malcolm and nephew of Donald.
The plaque is on the modern low gray wall to the left of our photo, facing to the right. This development opened up this section of the ...
The plaque was unveiled by Brian Poole (of Brian Poole and the Tremeloes). Poole wrote "This is where Jim’s first shop was and on the day...
Greater London Council Thomas Henry Wyatt 1807-1880, architect lived here.
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