Name of pub was probably "Railway Tavern"
2006-10-22 00:33:57 · 9 answers · asked by Geoffrey B 1 in News & Events ➔ Other - News & Events
I can't find anything specifically about a pub, but here are snippets of information about WW2 bomb damage in the Deptford area.
1. "Deptford suffered badly in WWII bombing. By 1944 almost everything had been damaged and 648 people killed." http://www.london-footprints.co.uk/wkdeptfordgrn.htm
2. PICS "London. Possibly around Deptford. VS of men working amongst large area of bomb damaged homes. Shots of rescued belongings and furniture piled in the middle of the rubble filled street. More shots of people digging through rubble with their bare hands. Some appear to be American soldiers. Various goods shots of large devastation after bomb raid." http://www.britishpathe.com/thumbnails.php?id=67315&searchfilm=*
3. "to the west of Deptford Creek is the Church of St. Nicholas, which has been on this site since at least the twelfth century .... the church was closed for major internal rebuilding due to incendiary bomb damage in 1940." http://wwp.greenwichengland.com/local/deptford.htm
4. "the V-2 that hit Deptford Woolworths killed 243 people" http://ww2db.com/read.php?read_id=8
5. "DAMAGE MAP Above is a bomb damage map of the Deptford area in London from World War II" http://www.bactec.com/eod/desk.htm
6. "unexploded Second World War bombs remain in ..... Deptford" http://www.londoncemeteries.co.uk/2005_11_01_archive.html
7. "An East London refugee who fled to Chelmsford to spend Christmas away from the bombing was injured when a V2 rocket fell on the Hoffman Manufacturing Company (December, 1944). The man, who has not been named, hoped to find some peace and quiet in the town after twice being bombed out of his home in Deptford." http://www.headlinehistory.co.uk/online/East%20of%20England/World%20War%202/Home%20Front/story1994.htm
8. "Hales Street, Deptford SE13 .... The previous building had been flattened as a result of WWII bomb damage and the site prior to development was a car park ..." http://www.molas.org.uk/pages/siteSummariesDetailsAll.asp?year=summaries2003
9. "... continue along the High Street ... its neighbour at 152 was rebuilt in the 1990s after being bombed in WWII." http://wwp.greenwichengland.com/local/deptford.htm
10. "Dusty Gedge, a birdwatcher and adviser to London Mayor Ken Livingstone's sustainable development panel, said: "Deptford provides an important habitat for the black redstart which favours bomb sites (of the second world war) and industrial sites." http://www.uknow.or.jp/be_e/s_topics/spotlight/environment/03.htm
I hope this is of interest.
2006-10-22 22:01:00 · answer #1 · answered by ♫ Rum Rhythms ♫ 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the only pub Ive heard of being bombed in the war was the Albion but was bordering lewisham and deptford
2006-10-22 02:31:40 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-15 07:22:16 · answer #3 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Very likely. Deptford was badly bombed
2006-10-22 03:00:18 · answer #4 · answered by brainstorm 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Was the pub near to a railway station by any chance?
2006-10-22 02:33:43 · answer #5 · answered by taxed till i die,and then some. 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nein lying Tommy schweinhund
2006-10-22 08:18:06 · answer #6 · answered by Friartuck 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
May not have been a muslim then......... but i bet the next one will be!
2006-10-22 01:02:03 · answer #7 · answered by Robert B 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes it did. For once it was not a muslim terrorist attack.
2006-10-22 00:35:31 · answer #8 · answered by Great Muslim 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
don't know, I wasn't there at the time
2006-10-24 13:49:13 · answer #9 · answered by Sierra One 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋