MEMORIALS
innocent victim
anti-aerial bombing
vera brittain
fenner brockway
edith cavell
cherry tree
richard cobden
co plaque
co stone
gandhi
mark gertler
peace pagoda
peace machine
henry richard
bertrand russell
dick sheppard
george lansbury
martin luther king
alfred salter
charles cobb
central hall
prisoners of war
burghers of calais
virginia woolf
sylvia pankhurst
children's memorial
murals
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On the morning of Wednesday June 13 1917 a dozen or so three-seater bombers carrying shrapnel bombs arrived over london and killed 104 people.
Sixteen of the dead were 5 and 6 year olds, in their classroom at Upper North Street School, Poplar.
'The sun had been shining, and then it seemed to go out in a roar of thunder.'
What happened next.
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CHILDRE'S MEMORIAL Poplar
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