A new memorial marks the site of London’s Smithfield Market bombing

A memorial to a WWII attack on the Smithfield markets can be found next to a newish office block recently completed in Farringdon.Nearly 80 years ago, on the late morning of 9th March 1945, a V2 rocket was fired from a site in the Netherlands at London. A few minutes later, at 11:03am, it hit the corner of the Smithfield markets in Farringdon. The attack was to become one of the worst civilian casualties of the V-2 rocket, with an estimated 110 people killed, and extensive damage to the whole ar