Sculpture marks fatal bombing in city’s Meco Memorial Nature Park

A memorial sculpture to the victims of the only fatal German attack on Worcester in the Second World War has been unveiled.

The leaf-shaped monument, created by local mosaic artist Victoria Harrison, is the centrepiece of the newly-regenerated Meco Memorial Nature Park, situated close to the Mining Engineering Co Ltd (Meco) works.

The factory was targeted in a bombing raid by a German aircraft on October 3 1940, with seven workers killed and 50 people injured.

The new memorial was unveiled by Irene Allen, aged 95, who narrowly avoided being injured in the attack, at a moving ceremony held at the park in the St John’s area of the city.

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