Event    From 31/5/1915  To 31/5/1915

First Zeppelin bomb of WW1

The Picture source has a good description of this event. More at IanVisits and Diamond Geezer.

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First Zeppelin bomb of WW1

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First Zeppelin bomb of WW1, correct - 1

First bomb of World War One, dropped on London by Zeppelin LZ 38 fell on this...

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First Zeppelin bomb of WW1, correct - 2

First bomb of World War One, to be dropped on London by Zeppelin LZ38, fell o...

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First Zeppelin bomb of WW1 - incorrect

This plaque was, according to the Council, a mistake and was removed by Hackney.

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World War 1

World War 1

We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came along at which point it was renamed as World War One or the First World War. But the term was first used in print in 1920...

Event, Armed Forces, Tragedy

384 memorials
Silver Wedding of Queen & Prince Philip

Silver Wedding of Queen & Prince Philip

At the time of their wedding Philip's title was Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh, not Prince, and the Queen was still Princess Elizabeth. If their family names had not been Anglicised earlier ...

Event, Royalty

2 memorials
Metropolitan Drinking Fountain & Cattle Trough Association - 80th anniversary

Metropolitan Drinking Fountain & Cattle Trough Association - 80th anniversary

Metropolitan Drinking Fountain & Cattle Trough Association.

Event, Food & Drink

2 memorials
Kindertransport

Kindertransport

10,000 unaccompanied mainly Jewish children fled from Nazi persecution in 1938 and 1939. This was organised mainly by World Jewish Relief, but many Quakers helped the children at stations on the jo...

Event, Children, Transport, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Poland

2 memorials
Tsunami in the Indian Ocean

Tsunami in the Indian Ocean

More than 230,000 people died, 153 being British.

Event, Tragedy, Africa, Burma, India, Indian Sub-continent, Indonisia, Southeast Asia

1 memorial

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Abney Park - CWGC war memorial

Abney Park - CWGC war memorial

N16, Abney Park Cemetery

The screen wall at the back, south, of the memorial carries a number of bronze panels listing the names.

2 subjects commemorated, 2 creators
Henrietta Barnett monument

Henrietta Barnett monument

NW11, Central Square

Unveiled 17 July 1937.

2 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
Apollo Victoria - Charlie Chaplin

Apollo Victoria - Charlie Chaplin

SW1, Wilton Road

The Chaplins on this large cinema, built in 1928 by E. Walmsley Lewis, were brought to our attention by Ornamental Passions where you can...

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
Frederick Pedley

Frederick Pedley

SE1, Great Maze Pond, Guy's Hospital - the Colonnade

In grateful memory of Frederick Newland Pedley who founded the Dental School in 1889, this tablet was unveiled on 4th May 1994, the fifti...

1 subject commemorated
Imperial Camel Corps

Imperial Camel Corps

WC2, Victoria Embankment Gardens

The sculptor was also a member of the corps. Unveiled by Chetwode. For another London camel statue see General Gordon on a camel. And If ...

War dead | WW1
350 subjects commemorated, 3 creators