Old Bedford Hotel bombing black plaque


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# Old Bedford Hotel, Southampton Row Standing on Southampton Row, you're looking at the site of one of London's darkest nights during the First World War—24th September 1917—when a German Gotha bomber descended through the darkness and released a 112-pound bomb directly onto the steps of the Old Be...
Location
Hotel Bedford, Southampton Row, WC1
Inscription
24th September 1917 13 people were killed and 22 injured near this spot on the steps of the Old Bedford Hotel by a 112lb bomb dropped by a Gotha in one of London's first night air raids