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.
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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...
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Keithroy Maynard
United Kingdom citizen who died in the terrorist attacks in America on 11 September 2001. Firefighter Keithroy Marcellus Maynard was born on 22 January 1971 in Montserrat, a UK Dependency in The C...
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Dr. Khawar Tauheed
A microbiologist, killed in the Ladbroke Grove rail disaster, aged 44. Andrew Behan has kindly carried out further research: Dr Khawar Tauheed was born on 9 November 1954 in Pakistan and moved to...
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John Andrews
John Andrews was born in 1959 and in September 2001 he married Tracy Lovick (1964-2004) in the Hertford and Ware registration district, Hertfordshire. According to the BBC News website he lived in...
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Richard Byron Caws
CVO, CBE, FRICS. Was a chartered surveyor and director of a number of companies. Admitted to the Fruiterers company in 1966. Grandson of Major Byron F. Caws. The Peerage informs that his is the so...
1 memorial
Saint Ethelburga / Aethelburh
Founder and Abbess of Barking. Probably used the manor in what is now Battersea Park. Sister of Saint Erkenwald. Died after 686.
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