carved teak
Detail of the Bethnal Green Disaster Memorial.
These are 22 of the 173 openings in the top of the memorial. Each symbolises one of the 173 victims.
Unveiled in December 2017, this is the memorial to those who died in Bethnal Green Underground station on 3rd March 1943 while the station was being used as an air raid shelter. The accident was caused by a crush as people rushed down the 18 steps to get into the station.
The memorial was designed by Harry Patticas and Jens Borstlemann of Arboreal Architecture and is called the Stairway to Heaven memorial. It is a full size replica in teak of the stairway down which the victims fell.
carved teak
Detail of the Bethnal Green Disaster Memorial.
These are 22 of the 173 openings in the top of the memorial. Each symbolises one of the 173 victims.
Unveiled in December 2017, this is the memorial to those who died in Bethnal Green Underground station on 3rd March 1943 while the station was being used as an air raid shelter. The accident was caused by a crush as people rushed down the 18 steps to get into the station.
The memorial was designed by Harry Patticas and Jens Borstlemann of Arboreal Architecture and is called the Stairway to Heaven memorial. It is a full size replica in teak of the stairway down which the victims fell.