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As an outer suburban area, some of which was still fairly large houses the death rate per missile at 1.88 was somewhat lowerthan it was in the more crowded inner London areas, although still a dreadful loss. Streatham's worst incident was on the3rd August 1944 when 12 people were killed by a V1 which struck in the Pendle Road area and caused widespread damageacross a number of roads.As was common in other areas V1's had an unpleasant tendency to fall in clusters. Thus The Pollards Hill area was toreceive 6 V1's within a small radius. These killed a total of 5 people and caused serious damage some houses being blastdamaged again and again.Norbury Crescent also suffered badly with 3 V1's which killed a total of 12 people.Two of these fell on consecutive days, the 4th and 5th of July 1944.Most of Streatham and Norbury's Flying Bomb scars have been healed with time. In places though tell tale signs appear.Close inspection of the area around Streatham Station reveals post war re-building and repairs. In other places such as LewinRoad 1960's flats plug a gap in the line of Victorian Houses. At the end of Lewin Road is an most unusual thing these days,a totally undeveloped Flying Bomb site at the junction with Streatham High Road. It is now surrounded by advertisinghoardings.