Employed at the Silvertown Brunner Mond works and killed in the 1917 Silvertown explosion.
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George Henry Hopkins
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Silvertown explosion - monument
Probably erected no more than an year or so after the explosion, this monumen...
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Driver Lauchlan
Royal Engineer killed by an exploding bomb while assisting in the attempt to disarm it. Andrew Behan has kindly carried out some research on this man: John M Lauchlan was born about 1920 the son o...
War dead, WW2
1 memorial
1 memorial
Bullivant’s Wharf - WW2 bomb
Isle of Dogs - Past Life, Past Lives is an excellent post about this event, with eye-witness accounts, from which we have drawn this brief summary: Bullivant & Co were wire rope-makers with a ...
1 memorial
William Wentzall
Role on the lost expedition: Able seaman on SS Terror. See John Franklin.
1 memorial
Craig Hayden
Via Facebook we have learnt that Craig came from Coventry and as an older teenager and Care Leaver, was living homeless in London around the time of 1990. We thank his mother, Margaret Henderson an...
1 memorial
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Alfred Hitchcock
Film director. Born at 517 Leytonstone High Road above his father William’s greengrocery and poultry shop. See Spitalfields Life for an unusual take on his life in Leytonstone. When Alfie was about...
23 memorials
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