Well known as a gay pub, the Admiral Duncan was the site chosen by Neo-Nazi David Copeland to detonate a nail bomb which killed three people and wounded 70.
Copeland, who was also responsible for the nail bomb attacks in Brixton (17 April) and Brick Lane (24 April), was sentenced to six concurrent life sentences in June 2000.
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Admiral Duncan pub bombing
The Admiral Duncan Pub 3 people killed, 70 injured, by a neo-Nazi nail bomber...
The plaque was unveiled by John Biggs, Mayor of Tower Hamlets and Mark Healey...
From Tottenham Quakers "In 1798 Priscilla Wakefield founded the first "frugality bank" in England. This she founded at Ship Inn Yard in Tottenham. It was intended to help people on lower incomes t...
Being at a junction the address has been given as 26 King Street which certainly is more definitive than the Gresham Street address which seems to have fluctuated widely. Pubwiki gives: "in the 184...
Asher Lehmann Meyer Gluckstein was born in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. HIs family chose the surname Gluckstein (lucky stone) when living under Napoleonic rule in Bremen (now in Germany). As a you...
The Tipperary pub, Fleet Street, was the first pub outside Ireland to have bottled Guinness and later draft.
Former outer London borough. It included Plaistow, West Ham, Stratford, Canning Town, Silvertown and the current Borough of Newham west of Green Street. It was amalgamated with other areas to form ...
From the Butchers' website: "Five of our seven Halls were burned down including destruction in the Great Fire of London in 1666. The fourth Hall, in Pudding Lane, was subject to a compulsory purch...
Painter. Born Birmingham, his mother dying as a result of his birth. Met his life-long friend, William Morris, at Oxford University. Dropped out of his degree and went to London to become a pupil o...
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