Died, aged 31, when a construction crane crashed, along with Peter Clark and Michal Whittard.
The BBC reported on the inquest. The crane was on the construction site for the HSBC skyscraper in Canary Wharf. The three men were in a crane, called a climbing frame, being used to lengthen another crane. The inquest failed to establish why the climbing frame began twisting and then crashed 25 storeys to the ground. The full report is here.
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Martin Burgess
In memory of Martin Burgess, Peter Clark and Michael Whittard, who died on 21...
Boris Yefimovich Nemtsov was a Russian physicist, liberal politician, and outspoken critic of Vladimir Putin. Early in his political career, he was involved in the introduction of reforms into the ...
Chief Executive of British Airways and then Chairman of Thames Water. Obituary at the Independent. The Independent of 4 May 1993 reported that his body was spotted 50 yards down river of Westminst...
Role on the lost expedition: Officer on SS Erebus. See John Franklin.
On this site at 17 Bruton Street stood the townhouse of the Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne where Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor, late...
Born Denmark. Married King James I in 1589. Mother of Charles I. She is said to have been involved in the Gunpower Plot. Died Hampton Court Palace.
Born 24 Moorfields Pavement Row, Finsbury. This was the Swan and Hoop pub, where his father worked as a stableman and later managed the inn. Baptised at St Botolphs. 1815-16 trained at Guy’s Hospit...
Boxer. Born in Leeds. She fought (and won) her first bout at the age of thirteen. She won several medals in her career, before becoming the first woman boxer to win a medal in the 2012 Olympic Game...
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