On this site at 12.15 am on the 25th August 1940 fell the first bomb on the City of London in the Second World War.
EC2, Fore Street, Roman House
The engraved stone is below the window on the ground floor flank wall. Interesting that the stone uses the exact same wording as the commemorative board.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
First City bomb in WW2
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This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
First City bomb in WW2
The black and white photo showing the lost commemorative board comes from A L...
Above the entrance to the building (to the left of our picture) in stone: 1573, E.R.".
Verbruggen's House, 1773, built for Jan & Pieter Vanbruggen, joint master founders at the Royal Brass Foundry. Subsequently used by t...
Padmore was so prominent in the campaign for self-governance in Africa that it is said almost all the independence leaders of Africa pass...
Richmal Crompton, authoress, lived here, 1928 - 1954. Bromley the London Borough
William Reeve, 1757 - 1815, composer, Covent Garden and Sadler's Wells theatres, lived and died in a house on this site. Marchmont Associ...
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