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English: War memorial and children's mass grave, Hither Green Cemetery, S.E. London. Hither Green Cemetery covers 65 acres. Almost in the centre is a memorial to all the people of Lewisham who died in the Second World War. In the foreground is a grave containing 31 children aged 5-15, and a teacher. The local Sandhurst Road School was bombed in 1943. 38 children and 6 adults died. Behind the trees in the background is the railway line into London. About 1/2 a mile from this spot lived E. Nesbit who wrote The Railway Children.
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Object location51° 26′ 15″ N, 0° 00′ 40″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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