Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Tower Hamlets
- Town
- Whitechapel
- County
- Greater London
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 21st December 1995
Attended by: Relatives and friends of the victims
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 39889
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Current location
On ground floor wall of Block L
Peabody Buidings Block L
John Fisher Street
Whitechapel
Tower Hamlets
Greater London
E1 8HB
England
OS Grid Ref: TQ 34127 80691
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Black marble plaque fixed to the exterior of ground floor wall of Block L. The plaque records the names and ages of 66 residents and visitors killed by a WW2 air raid.
- Inscription
- Erected/ To the memory of the victims of the Air-Raid/on Peabody Estate Whitechapel on 8th September 1940/ RESIDENTS/ (Names)/ VISITORS/ (Names)
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Aris, Algernon
Aris, Sheila
Aris, Violet
Bailey, Alice
Bailey, Christine
Bailey, Jean
Bailey, John
Bailey, Philip
Blackeby, Alice
Blackeby, John
See details for all 78 names - Commemorations
- Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 78
Served and returned: 0
Died: 78
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Surname, forename, age of death, addresses for the visitors
Order of information: Undefined
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Components
- Tablet
Measurements: height 9400mm, width 1520mm
Materials: Marble - Black
- Tablet
- Listing information
- This memorial is not currently listed. Find out how to nominate this memorial for inclusion on the National Heritage List for England
- More about listing and the protection of historic places can be found on the Historic England website
- Condition
- Costs
Site: Approx £2800
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Sponsorship
- Corporate
- Responsibility
- Peabody Trust
- Reference
- Remembering victims of Blitz bombing raid www.peabody.org.uk/news-views/2019/sep/whitechapel-memorial
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