Event    From 14/6/2017  To 14/6/2017

Grenfell fire

Categories: Tragedy

Just before 1am a fire broke out in the 24-storey Grenfell Tower block of flats. This social housing block was on the north-east edge of the largely wealthy W11 post code, just south of Silchester Road. 72 people died, including 2 later in hospital. More than 70 were injured. 223 people escaped. It was the worst UK residential fire since WW2.

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Grenfell fire

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Grenfell fire - Methodist church

{On the wreath:} Grenfell, 14.06.2017, love, prayers {The nearby white notic...

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Grenfell fire - sculpture

{Below the mournful statue:} 14.6.17

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Grenfell memorial wall

Too many sad and challenging messages for us to transcribe but we thought the...

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Khadija's garden

Khadija's Garden This bed of planting commemorates Khadija Saye, who was trag...

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The El-Wahabi orchard

The El-Wahabi family lived on the 21st floor.

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Receiving House

In 1774 a group of London doctors, concerned at the number of people who were mistakenly being given up for dead, wanted to promote new techniques of resuscitation. They decided to concentrate on d...

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1 memorial
Malta Siege

Malta Siege

According to Wikipedia Malta has been besieged four times.  For the reason of "disambiguation" - this is the one in WW2.  This timeline has been transcribed from the memorial: June 1940: Italy dec...

Event, Armed Forces, Tragedy

1 memorial
Bertram George Cooper

Bertram George Cooper

Passenger killed in the Handley Page V/1500 air-crash. Bertram George Cooper was born circa 1883, the younger child of John Debnam Cooper (1843-1920 and Kate Maud Cooper née Willett (1862-1911). H...

Person, Tragedy

1 memorial
Mydiddee

Mydiddee

He was the servant of a Tahitian chief, and it is believed that he was brought to England by Captain Bligh (6 years after the ill-fated Bounty assignment) to act as a cultural ambassador. Already i...

Person, Race Issues, Tragedy, Tahiti

1 memorial
Bradley Charles Ridley

Bradley Charles Ridley

Non-British, killed by the Bali bomb.

Person, Tragedy

1 memorial