British History On-line puts the blame squarely on the "negligence of the steeple-keeper". There you can see the exact cost of the repairs to each element destroyed by the fire and the name of the firm that provided the repairs or replacement.
No one died so our category of Tragedy is perhaps overdoing it.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Christ Church Spitalfields - fire
Did they point out that the fire happened on Ash Wednesday because they saw t...
Role on the lost expedition: Able seaman on SS Erebus. See John Franklin.
Barbara Jessie Halford was born on 5 June 1920, the younger of the two children of Ebenezer Sidney Halford (1883-1969) and Emma Halford née Milton (1881-1950). Her birth was registered in the 3rd q...
Role on the lost expedition: Petty officer on SS Terror. See John Franklin.
A large nail bomb hidden in a car parked on South Carriage Drive exploded as the Queen's Life Guard passed. It was set by the IRA and probably controlled remotely. Four members of The Blues and R...
For more information about this hero click on the picture of his plaque.
Physicist and mathematician, best known for his invention of the barometer.
This plaque is not particularly interesting visually so we are showing the roof-top sculpture instead, which is.
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came along at which point it was renamed as World War One or the First World War. But the term was first used in print in 1920...
Barrister, Liberal MP, Postmaster General 1892-5. From Ornamental Passions: Morley has gone down in history for a staggeringly wrong assessment of the market potential of a new technology. In in 1...
Founded 1837 with Sydney Hall in Pond Place. At Exciting we learn "In about 1906 they published a set of cards showing their original Sydney Hall and vacant site nearby at the southern apex of Bury...
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