Person    | Male  Died 15/8/1853

John Foreman

Categories: Tragedy

John Foreman

Construction worker killed in the fatal accident at Crystal Palace.

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk

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John Foreman

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Crystal Palace workmen's grave

Twelve workmen were killed, but we are unable to find out where the other two...

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Anna Cecilia Aviles Marcillo

Non-British, killed by the Bali bomb.

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John Levett
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Kingston Hospital - flying bomb

Kingston Hospital - flying bomb

The bomb landed on a tennis court by the nurses’ home. It destroyed the outpatients'  department and badly damaged many other areas including the casualty department. On this 1940 map the building...

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1 memorial
M.A. Bobby Keegan

M.A. Bobby Keegan

Michael Anthony Keegan was born in August 1937. He died, aged 50 years, on 18 November 1987 in the King's Cross Underground Station fire. In the subsequent fire investigation report he was describe...

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1 memorial
Marta Krawiec

Marta Krawiec

Dr Krawiec was killed by a left-turning HGV at the junction with Theobald’s Road and Southampton Row. She was aged 41 and worked as a paediatrician and and allergy expert at a clinic in Clapham and...

Person, Cyclist, Tragedy, Poland

1 memorial

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London and Greenwich Railway

London and Greenwich Railway

The first steam railway to have a terminus in London. Originally it ran, largely on viaducts, between Deptford and Spa Road Bermondsey. By 1838 it had been extended at both ends: from Deptford to G...

Place, Transport

6 memorials
McDonald's Restaurants

McDonald's Restaurants

Fast food outlets. The company was founded as a barbecue restaurant by Richard and Maurice McDonald. In 1948, they reorganised the business as a self-service drive-in restaurant selling hamburgers,...

Place, Food & Drink, USA

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St Peter's Hospital / Fishmongers Almshouses

St Peter's Hospital / Fishmongers Almshouses

The almshouses were on the area west of Newington Butts and south of St George’s Road, now occupied by the Tabernacle and an anonymous office block to the north. Erected in two phases: firstly St. ...

Group, Social Welfare

2 memorials
Columbia Market attack

Columbia Market attack

On the first day of the Blitz it seems that a 50kg bomb fell through a ventilation shaft and exploded in the basement of the market which had been designated an air-raid shelter for the local peopl...

Event, Tragedy

1 memorial
Bradley Lynch

Bradley Lynch

Cancer sufferer and fund raiser. Bradley Lynch was born on 20 March 1972, his birth being registered in the 2nd quarter of 1972 in the Stepney registration district. His mother's maiden name was Ay...

Person, Benefactor, Community / Clubs

1 memorial