What did Bronze plaque № 10799 do at Ennismore Street?

The Story

# Ennismore Street's "Hole in the Wall" Standing before this bronze plaque on Ennismore Street, you're witnessing a story of destruction transformed into community victory. On the night of 25 September 1940, a German bomb tore through the boundary wall of the Rutland Estate, leaving behind not just rubble but an unexpected opportunity for the residents who lived behind those grand Victorian facades. When Westminster rebuilt the wall in 1948, locals seized the moment and successfully petitioned to keep a passage open through it—a small act of defiance that created the affectionately named "hole in the wall," a right of way that still stands as a physical reminder of how ordinary people reshaped their neighborhood after wartime devastation. This plaque, unveiled nearly fifty years later in 1988, celebrates not a famous figure or grand institution, but rather the quiet persistence of residents who refused to let their community be walled off, transforming a bomb crater into a permanent public victory against the erasure of their wartime suffering.