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
Sorry, we've done no research on WW2, it's just too big a subject. But do vis...
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...
The house behind is Vanburgh Castle which he built for himself while Surveyor to the nearby Royal Naval Hospital in Greenwich. He lived h...
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The Victoria Cross plaques are located on the grass by the memorial. and can be seen in the bottom right of our photograph. Regarding Ce...
This garden acquired its name due to its popularity as a lunchtime garden with workers from the nearby General Post Office (long gone). ...
Westminster City Council Savoy Theatre Opened in 1881, the Savoy Theatre was the first public building in the world to be lit throughou...
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