A former colleague of mine is involved in the campaign to build a proper memorial to the people at Bethnal Green. He grandmother and mother were involved in the tragedy though her mother survived. A child they were caring for did not. I keep promising Sandra I will post up more about the campaign here and haven't done it due to so much else on my plate. The fund has just been awarded £100,000 by the local authority, who it must be presumed are mindful of a debt owed as demographics change the area forever.
There was a terrible disaster of a similar nature at Stoke Newington in North London where close on 200 people died when a shelter was hit and the gas and water mains fractured. My mother had been turned away from the shelter, which was full, just before it happened.
I am working on an interview with a historian who gives Blitz walks around the City of London and fringes of. Perhaps we can get a team up to go on one?
MB