Event    From 16/10/1987  To 16/10/1987

Great Storm of 1987

Categories: Tragedy

In the early hours of Friday 16 October 1987 a great storm struck South East England. In four violent hours London lost 250,000 trees. Its skyline changed for ever. 22 people were killed in England and France.

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Great Storm of 1987

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Angus McGill

This plaque was installed in 2017, on the 30th anniversary of the Great Storm...

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Avenue of trees - Hampstead Heath

This avenue was replanted in November 1988 to replace trees destroyed by a hu...

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Great Storm - Holland Park

28th November 1987 The Worshipful The Mayor, Councillor Mrs Elizabeth Russell...

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Great Storm - Victoria Embankment Gardens

This oak tree was planted by the Lord Mayor of Westminster, Councillor Kevin ...

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Great Storm - Victoria Park

London Plane Platanus X Hispanica. This tree was planted by his Worship the M...

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Captain M. F. Blaney

Captain M. F. Blaney

Royal Engineer killed defusing a bomb. Awarded the George Cross posthumously and Blaney Crescent, E6, where we understand there is/was another plaque, was named for him. Blaney had already defused ...

Person, Armed Forces, Tragedy, Ireland

War dead, WW2
1 memorial
Parvin Rieu
1 memorial
John Light

John Light

John Light was born on 27 April 1967, the son of Dennis H. Light (b.1931) and Betty Lilian Light née James (b.1934). His birth was registered in the 2nd quarter of 1967 in the Plymouth registration...

Person, Tragedy

1 memorial
Kurt William Cochran

Kurt William Cochran

Died in an act of terrorism on 22 March 2017 on Westminster Bridge. Kurt Cochran, 54, from the US state of Utah, was in London as part of a holiday celebrating 25 years of marriage to Melissa, who ...

Person, Terrorism, Tragedy, USA

1 memorial
Sidney Joseph Benstead

Sidney Joseph Benstead

Employed at the Silvertown Brunner Mond works and killed in the 1917 Silvertown explosion.  Imperial War Museum has a page. Also, "There appears to be a connection between Walter Mauger and anothe...

Person, Tragedy, Channel Islands

1 memorial