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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Behnaz Zahra Mozakka

Behnaz Zahra Mozakka

Behnaz Zahra Nazhand, known as 'Nazy', was born on 18 September 1957 in Shiraz, Iran. She married Nader Mozakka in 1979 and had lived in Finchley, north London for 13 years. Electoral registers fro...

Person, Tragedy, Iran/Persia

3 memorials
Alexander Williamson Fallon

Alexander Williamson Fallon

Alexander Williamson Fallon was born in 1914 in Falkirk, Scotland. He was married with four daughters. His wife, Janet, died about 1974 and he drifted into homelessness in London in the 1980's. He...

Person, Tragedy, Scotland

1 memorial
John Jefferies

John Jefferies

One of two killed by the Docklands IRA bomb. They were both workers in the newsagent’s directly opposite the bomb. Our colleague Andrew Behan has researched this man and found the photo: John Alan...

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