This plaque has been placed here in memory of the 45 people who lost their lives in the Castle public house on the 19th April 1941 during a World War II bomb attack.
SW15, Brewhouse Lane, 3
The Castle plaque is the lower of the three near the camera. The Cromwell plaque is just visible, one window bay to the left of the woman facing the camera.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Castle pub WW2 bomb
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45 people lost their lives in the Castle public house during a World War II b...
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This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Castle pub WW2 bomb
The plaque fails to explain why it is on this particular spot. Cromwell's fa...
The plaque can be seen in our photo, in the pavement near the brown door.
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In 1951 the pub was called Grafton's and run by Jimmy Grafton who helped create the Goons and get them on the radio.
It seems likely that "1922" is the date the plaque was erected - exactly 50 years after Mazzini's death.
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