Event    From 11/3/2011  To 11/3/2011

Fukushima disaster

Categories: Tragedy

Countries: Japan

The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant suffered major damage from an earthquake and tsunami.

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This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Fukushima disaster

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Japanese Garden - Holland Park

Another plaque, further along the path reads: The Empress and I, as well as s...

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Richard Farris

Richard Farris

For more information about this hero click on the picture of his plaque.

Person, Tragedy

1 memorial
Sadako Sasaki

Sadako Sasaki

Sadako Sasaki was a Japanese girl who was one of the c.100,000 people killed by the atom bomb dropped on  Hiroshima. She was two years of age at the time and was severely irradiated. She survived f...

Person, Tragedy, Japan

War dead non-military, WW2
1 memorial
Terrence Higgins

Terrence Higgins

AIDS victim. Born Terrence Lionel Seymour Higgins (known as Terry) in Priory Mount Hospital, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire. He joined the Royal Navy, but as a gay man, he came into conflict with the...

Person, Tragedy, Wales

1 memorial
Jennifer Ann Murphy

Jennifer Ann Murphy

Non-British, killed by the Bali bomb.

Person, Tragedy

1 memorial
William Wise

William Wise

William Hugh Surtees Wise was born on 6 April 1951 in Oxford, the youngest of the three sons of Horatio Thomas Wise (1906-1990) and Lucy Maud Wise née Helliwell (1919-1951). His elder brothers were...

Person, Tragedy

3 memorials

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Royal Victoria Music Hall

Royal Victoria Music Hall

A former concert hall adjacent to the Royal Victoria public house. Licensed until 1887, it was rebuilt in 1890 and continued in use until 1903. From 1910 to 1914 it operated as a cinema. Demolished...

Building, Cinema, Theatre

1 memorial
Society of West End Theatre/London Theatre

Society of West End Theatre/London Theatre

1908 Formed as West End Theatre Managers. 1976 By now it is called Society of West End Theatre. 1994 Renamed Society of London Theatre.

Group, Theatre

17 memorials
Television

Television

See Londonist's excellent post How Television Was Invented In London. We love it when our friends do the work for us!

Media, Science, TV & Radio

3 memorials
Lee Rigby

Lee Rigby

Soldier. Born as Lee James McClure (he later took his stepfather's surname) in Crumpsall, Manchester. He joined the army in 2006, and was selected to be a member of the Corps of Drums, serving in C...

Person, Armed Forces, Tragedy

3 memorials
12 & 14 Folgate Street

12 & 14 Folgate Street

Reading left to right the five 4-storey houses in the picture are numbers 18 - 10.  The picture source gives some detailed descriptions of the houses in their 1957 state and informs that in 1813 ou...

Building, Property

1 memorial