bomb crater pond, Walthamstow Marshes – The pond marks the impact of a V2 rocket on 11 February 1945. No one was killed but the rocket left a crater in the marshes that remains to this day.

“I remember the V2 falling on the Marshes distinctly. We lived in Dudlington Road, Hackney, Just a matter of yards away on the other side of Latham’s timber yard. My cousin from New Zealand and four of his shipmates from the NZ navy were visiting us and my mum was making dinner when a huge explosion blasted two of our windows in and threw the front door wide open. One of the sailors, in an effort to protect me pushed me under the table, but his aim was bad and I hit my head on the heavy table leg causing a big bump. Mud from the marshes was caked on a large part of the area. My cousin Charlie ran to the site and found a bright, shiny, still warm dial from the rocket complete with Germanic lettering on it. Thankfully no one was killed”