After 10 days in which Wanstead suffered no direct hits from German planes, on this night in 1940, high explosives were dropped on
- Nelson Road, setting a gas main alight, at 2130
- Woodford Road and Eagle Lane, damaging the road, at 2142
- Elmcroft Avenue at 2155, and
- 72 Wellington Road, badly damaging the house, at 2215