64/365 - a photo a day for 2015
Thursday 5th March 2015 - Stairway to Heaven Memorial, Bethnal Green.
A reminder that one of the worst civilian disasters of the Second World War occurred 72 years ago, on 3rd March 1943, when 173 men, women and children died in a crush at the unfinished Underground station which was being used as an air-raid shelter.
A memorial service was held at St John on Bethnal Green on Sunday 1st March, following which floral tributes were laid on the partially-completed Stairway to Heaven Memorial, which was unveiled on 3rd March 2013 as part of the 70th anniversary commemorations. This tribute was laid by Alf Morris, a childhood survivor of the disaster and a stalwart campaigner and fundraiser for the Memorial.
64/365 - a photo a day for 2015
Thursday 5th March 2015 - Stairway to Heaven Memorial, Bethnal Green.
A reminder that one of the worst civilian disasters of the Second World War occurred 72 years ago, on 3rd March 1943, when 173 men, women and children died in a crush at the unfinished Underground station which was being used as an air-raid shelter.
A memorial service was held at St John on Bethnal Green on Sunday 1st March, following which floral tributes were laid on the partially-completed Stairway to Heaven Memorial, which was unveiled on 3rd March 2013 as part of the 70th anniversary commemorations. This tribute was laid by Alf Morris, a childhood survivor of the disaster and a stalwart campaigner and fundraiser for the Memorial.