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Description: | J Wright's detailed etching shows bomb-damaged Warrington Crescent at some time during or immediately after the First World War.
At 11.55pm on 7 March 1918, a German Gotha aircraft dropped a one-ton bomb onto the dividing wall between 63 and 65 Warrington Crescent. Five large houses including numbers 61, 63, 65 and 67 were destroyed.
Twelve people were killed and 23 injured. Among the dead were Mrs Lena Ford, who wrote the words for the war song 'Till the Boys Come Home', and her son Walter, who lived at number 61.
Over the days following the attack, Field Marshall Viscount French, Queen Alexandra and Princess Victoria, King George and Queen Mary visited Warrington Crescent. The site was also visited by the then Minister for Munitions, Winston Churchill, who had just returned from a trip to France. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Museum of London | Rights holder: | Digital image Museum of London | Subjects: | London at War Art and Design Home and Family | Temporal: | 1914-1919 | Source: | Museum of London | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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