Bombs dropped in the ward of: Cripplegate
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Description
Total number of bombs dropped from 7th October 1940 to 6th June 1941 in Cripplegate:
- High Explosive Bomb
- 11
Number of bombs dropped during the week of 7th October 1940 to 14th of October:
Number of bombs dropped during the first 24h of the Blitz:
No bombs were registered in this area
Memories in Cripplegate
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Contributed originally by wellslibrary1 (BBC WW2 People's War)
This story was added by Tricia Humphrey, Librarian, Wells Public Library, Somerset as told by Shelagh Levy Addis.
Every day during the war someone from Hampstead went up to the Whitestone Pond, the highest point in London, and if they could see the cross on the top of St Paul's cathedral, London was safe and free.
