What is recorded here
This black commemorative plaque records: On 14th September 1940, a summer gala was held on this site, then known as Arpley Meadows. More than 2,500 people were present. At 5.03pm a lone German bomber passed overhead. Two bombs were released. Sixteen men, women and children lost their lives. Many more were seriously injured. This stone is erected in their memory.
The Arpley Meadows bombing occurred during a summer gala on September 14, 1940, when a German bomber attacked, killing sixteen people and injuring many more, highlighting the indiscriminate nature of aerial warfare during World War II.
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