Elmers End Bus Garage Staff

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Memorial details

Memorial type

Board / Plaque / Tablet

District

Town

County

Country

Commemoration

Second World War - civilians

Ceremony

Unveiled
Date: 14 May 1954
Attended by:

Lost

Not lost

WM Reference

58444

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Current location

In the London's transport at war gallery (level 0 -ground)
London Transport Museum
Covent Garden Piazza
Covent Garden
City Of Westminster
Greater London
WC2E 7BB
England

OS Grid Ref: TQ 30448 80891
Denomination: Undefined

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Previous locations

London Transport Museum Depot
2 Museum Way
118-120 Gunnersbury Lane
Acton
Ealing
Greater London
W3 9BQ
England

OS Grid Ref: TQ 193 797
Denomination: Undefined
near the Bowling Green
Langley Park Social and Sports Club
South Eden Park Road
Beckenham
Bromley
Greater London
England

OS Grid Ref: TQ 380 670
Denomination: Undefined
Beside the entrance to the garage.
Elmers End Bus Garage
Elmers End Road
Beckenham
Bromley
Greater London
England

OS Grid Ref: TQ 356 688
Denomination: Undefined
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Description

A rectangular stone tablet with narrow margin. A griffin (badge of London Transport)is carved at the head and inscription in upright block capital lettering is below. (below this on plaque while at Langley Park) THIS MONUMENT WAS MOVED/ TO THIS SITE/ FROM ELMERS END BUS GARAGE/ WHICH CLOSED ON THE/ 25TH OCTOBER 1986 In 2018 there is an interpretation board which reads-Elmers End memorial/Elmers End Bus Garage was hit by a V1 flying/bomb on 18 July 1944. Ten staff were killed/and 39 vehicles destroyed. Incredibly, normal services were resumed the next day. This memorial to those who died was unveiled/with the rebuilt garage in 1954. The main/entrance was named the Cunningham Gate/in memory of John Cunningham who died/after sounding the alarm bell warning of the/V1's approach. The memorial was removed/after the garage closed in 1986. [see our reference 47900 for this memorial, also our reference 58759 for a painting of this incident, dedicated to him)

Inscription

IN MEMORY OF/ (Names)/ LONDON TRANSPORT/ STAFF/ KILLED HERE BY AN/ ENEMY FLYING BOMB/ 18TH. JULY 1944

Inscription legible?

yes

Names on memorial

Cunningham, John E
Leach, Herbert W
Rarp, Florence M
Sharpe, Thomas W
Singlehurst, Walter J
Smythe, Michael
Stares, Charles
Stevens, Frank W
Westbroom, Fredk. H
Wilbourne, Alfred
See details for all 10 names

Commemorations

Second World War - civilians
Total names on memorial: 10
Served and returned: 0
Died: 10
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, forenames
Order of information: surname

Components

Tablet
Measurements: depth 140mm, height 1600mm, width 890mm
Materials: Stone - Limestone
Plaque
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Metal

Listing information

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Condition

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History

Cleaning undertaken after the memorial was moved from Langley Park

Trust fund/Scholarship

No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A

Sponsorship

Corporate

Responsibility

London Transport Museum (Accession 2000/ 8161)

Reference

London Transport Museum Various photos of the garage after the bombing www.ltmcollection.org/photos/results/results.html?IXsearch=elmers+end
London Transport Magazine v.7 No.12 (March 1954) p.2
BROMLEY WAR MEMORIALS VOLUME FIVE by RASON, PAUL pp. 201-2 Source: Image Library NIWM Published:LONDON BOROUGH OF BROMLEY NOV 1999 BROMLEY
Friends of the London Transport Museum Newsletter 8 / July 2006; No.90 (July 2007) p.2 Published:London Transport Museum
A History of the 44th London (London Transport) Battalion of the Home Guard 1940 - 1946 by Anon 22 Published:Thorns 1948
London Transport Museum 1997/141ing position of the me
London Transport At War by Graves, Charles 89-90 Published:London Transport 1978

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