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‘Hushed-Up’ Blitz Tragedy Remembered

The tragedy at Bethnal Green underground station sixty-five years ago today is commemorated.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7273488.stm

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By: 25deg south - 4th March 2008 at 09:34

I wonder if anybody can confirm the story of another incident not so far away from this one?
Just south of the Angel tube station apparently another shelter had a near miss, which shattered the culvert of an underground river ( The Lea ?) flooding the shelter and causing many casualties.
I was told this version by cleaning ladies some years back, who worked in the City University Dame Alice Owen building which adjoined the apparent site.

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By: Rocketeer - 3rd March 2008 at 19:47

bittery sad event…covered well in the superb Blitz Then & Now book….certainly stuck in my mind….used those steps when I was a Stude at QMC on Mile End Road….the other was the tragic Fw190 bombing of the school the now & then photos are moving

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By: Arabella-Cox - 3rd March 2008 at 06:09

At the time of the Blitz I was a schoolboy living in London. Because it being hushed-up we did not know much about this Tragedy we heard of it through the rumours that were flying about at time. Today there is a small plaque to commemorate this Tragedy.

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