tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7733583.post1102961997831322369..comments2024-03-04T08:34:20.376+00:00Comments on John's Labour blog: London Marathon 2012 Training Wk 8: West Ham WardJohn Grayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14269161145575667147noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7733583.post-89485623820711767112011-12-19T08:24:50.666+00:002011-12-19T08:24:50.666+00:00Hi Bob
Good idea. There is a East London memoria...Hi Bob<br /><br />Good idea. There is a East London memorial to Blitz victims in Wapping. However, I think that we should be able to plant something (possibly by local children?) in the green space which was the impact zone.John Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14269161145575667147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7733583.post-21845434260870979572011-12-19T06:51:21.340+00:002011-12-19T06:51:21.340+00:00John
Outside the main door of All Saints Stratfor...John<br /><br />Outside the main door of All Saints Stratford is a small mound where a V1 landed. Some say it is still buried there.<br /><br />The devastation caused by the V weapons in West Ham/East Ham pales when compared with the bomb damage during the Blitz. <br /><br />Records are hard to find as they were mainly compiled by ARP wardens and stored at local police stations. Hopefully the records are somewhere but during a research project I carried out some years ago I was advised by the Imperial War museum that most records were missing.<br /><br />Rather than a memorial to one tragic V2 incident, how about a memorial to all those civilians in West Ham/East Ham who lost their lives in WW2 which could perhaps be a focus for rememberance. There are already a number of individual memorials but I am not aware of anything that collectively reconises the sacrifice on the home front in East London.bob smithnoreply@blogger.com