From the picture source website: "The fire started in consignment of jute stored at Scovell's warehouse at Cotton's Wharf. This was the biggest of all the peacetime fires in the port: it raged for two days and destroyed most of the nearby buildings. It was the greatest test of the new London Fire Engine Establishment. The whole force was mobilised to fight the blaze, including its head, James Braidwood, who was killed when a wall fell on him. It was a full two weeks before the remaining embers were finally doused."
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Great fire of Tooley Street
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Great fire of Tooley Street
2021: This plaque has been replaced with a similar plaque, re-branded to prom...
James Braidwood
What a great plaque. The inscription is inside a laurel wreath, in front of a...
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No. 11 Fighter Group RAF Operations Room
It was from this underground bunker that the air defence of London and the south-east was coordinated during the Battle of Britain and throughout WW2. It's now a museum and well worth a visit.
1 memorial
Burma Campaign
Fought in the former British colony of Burma (now Myanmar), primarily between the forces of the British Empire and China, with support from the United States, against the invading forces of Japan, ...
1 memorial
A. W. North
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
1 memorial
A. W. K. Brett
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
1 memorial
Private Charles Henry Charman
Charles Henry Charman was born on 25 February 1895 in Stratford Essex, the eldest of the ten children of Charles Henry Charman (1873-1943) and Maria Rose Charman née Worrow (1873-1946). His birth w...
1 memorial