Annual V2 Site Wreath Laying Ceremony Takes Place
Placed at memorial on site on 80th anniversary of Staveley Road attack
The wreath laid at the site on the 80th anniversary of the attack. Picture: Howard Simmons
August 19, 2024
On Sunday, 8 September, at 6.44pm four members of the Brentford and Chiswick Local History Society quietly placed a wreath at the V2 memorial in Staveley Road.
This was exact time when the rocket exploded in Chiswick in 1944.
The Society has done this every year since the memorial was unveiled in 2004, a joint project of the Society and the London Chapter of the Battlefields Trust which marked the 60th anniversary.
This is the 80th anniversary and the wreath is in memory of the local people who died there: Sapper Bernard Browning who was home on leave and walked past on the way to Chiswick Station to go and visit his girlfriend; Rosemary Clarke, aged 3 who died while asleep in the front bedroom at no 1 Staveley Road; and Mrs Ada Harrison. She died in the blast at no 3 and her husband was badly injured and died soon afterwards. The Harrisons ran a sweet shop and newsagent called Bonanza on the corner of Park Road and Burlington Lane where the Co-op now is.
Val Bott
The people who died in the V2 attack. Picture: Chiswick Local Studies & Archives
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