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Saturday, 15 November 2008

Bank tube station - 11th January 1941














Bank tube station, and City of London Cemetery and Crematorium


On January 11, 1941 during the London blitz the Central Line ticket hall suffered a direct hit from a German bomb. The surrounding buildings - the Bank of England (the intended target), the Royal Exchange and the Mansion House - collapsed into the subways and station concourse, killing 56 people.


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