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Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- City Of Westminster
- Town
- Covent Garden
- County
- Greater London
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- Second World War - civilians
- Ceremony
- Unknown
Date: October 2000
Attended by:
- Unknown
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 52421
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Current location
London Transport Museum
Covent Garden Piazza
Covent Garden
City Of Westminster
Greater London
WC2E 7BB
England
OS Grid Ref: TQ 303 807
Denomination: Undefined
- Previous locations
- In ticket hall within barrier.
Balham Underground Railway Station
Balham High St
Balham
Wandsworth
Greater London
SW12 9SG
England
OS Grid Ref: TQ 285 732
Denomination: Undefined
- In ticket hall within barrier.
- Description
- Plain circular metal plaque with white lettering.
- Inscription
- In memory of/ the 64 people killed/ at this station by/ a wartime bomb/ 14th October 1940/
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Commemorations
- Second World War - civilians
Total names on memorial: 0
Served and returned: 0
Died: 0
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Undefined
Order of information: Undefined
- Second World War - civilians
- Components
- Plaque
Measurements: height 450mm, width 450mm
Materials: Metal
- Plaque
- 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
- Balham Underground Railway Station Air Raid (1)
- WMO ID: 73001
- Condition: Undefined [last updated on 03-07-2020]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- History
- 2010: A new plaque (Our ref. 60963) to commemorate all those who died replaced this plaque and was unveiled on 14th October 2010. The former plaque will then be donated to the London Transport Museum. Nov. 2008. It is planned to alter the number who died from 64 to 67, thus including three London Transport employees who were killed.
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- Wandsworth Borough News 19 Nov. 2008 pp.14-15
- Underground News No.588 pp.718-9
- London Transport At War by Graves, Charles pp.50,53. Published:London Transport 1978
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