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
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...
Sir Charles Barry, 1795 - 1860, architect, lived and died here. L.C.C.
This is an authorised plaque but Westminster, as revealed in the official decision, wanted it any colour but their standard green. Old f...
Designer of the first Hammersmith Bridge, William Tierney Clark, 1783-1852, lived on this waterworks site, c.1839.
London County Council Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, 1843-1911, statesman and author, lived here.
Comments are provided by Facebook, please ensure you are signed in here to see them