Charity Art Auction – Stair Way To Heaven Memorial Trust

Steve’s auctioneering skills have been called upon once again, this time its for the “Stair Way To Heaven Memorial Trust“
On 3 March 1943 a crowd of people entered Bethnal Green tube station which was used at the time as an air-raid shelter. After the searchlights went on and an anti-aircraft battery a few hundred yards away in Victoria Park launched a salvo of a new type of anti-aircraft rockets the crowd surged forward. Someone tripped on the stairs causing many others to fall. 300 people were crushed into the stairwell within a few seconds, 173 of them died and over 90 were injured. The worst civilian disaster of the 2nd World War. Full planning permission has now been granted by the London Borough of Tower Hamlets for the Memorial to be built. Now all they need to do is raise the money.