On the first day of the Blitz it seems that a 50kg bomb fell through a ventilation shaft and exploded in the basement of the market which had been designated an air-raid shelter for the local people. The number of people killed varies depending on source but the memorial lists 45 names.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Columbia Market attack
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Columbia Market air raid shelter memorial
In memory of those who lost their lives when a bomb penetrated the Columbia M...
Other Subjects
Alice Maud Denman
Died in a fire at 423 Hackney Road on the night of 19/20 April 1902. For more details see our page for the fire.
2 memorials
Fireman 3rd Class Herbert White
Died in a fire at Lots Road SW. Our colleague, Andrew Behan, was able to find very little about this man apart from the fact that when his death was registered in the 4th quarter of 1904 in the Ke...
1 memorial
Sidney Wright (Jnr)
Killed in the Camberwell Green air-raid, aged 21, during his own wedding party.
War dead non-military, WW2
1 memorial
1 memorial
1 memorial
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