Lowestoft WW2 Air Raid memorial stone
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Lowestoft WW2 Air Raid memorial stone
Image: © Helen Steed Taken: 1 Jan 2019
At 1627 hours on Tuesday 13 Jan 1942, a low flying Dornier Do 217 flying through a snowstorm dropped 4 large HE (high-explosive) bombs in London Road North, Lowestoft. Waller's Restaurant was full of service personnel at tea and within seconds the whole row of shops and premises had been reduced to a huge pile of rubble. Twelve people were rescued from beneath the rubble but 70 died and over 150 were injured in Lowestoft's blackest day of the war. In 1992, the Jack Rose Old Lowestoft Society (JROLS) raised funds for a memorial to the civilian war dead in Lowestoft. It was one of the late Jack Rose's long held ambitions to honour those who died in air raids on the town and this was the culmination of his and the society's efforts. The memorial was originally located on London Road North near to Marks & Spencer's but was moved in 2005 to a wall adjacent to Savers in The Marina.
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52.476225
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