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 Jeffries was born on 9 December 1964 in Lewisham, the son of John W. Jeffries and Betty Ellen Jeffries, née Pattison. He was killed working in a newsagent shop as a result of an IRA terrorist explosion at Canary Wharf, aged 31 years, on 9 February 1996.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
John Jefferies
Due to a warning the area was evacuated but this was incomplete and two men w...
Prime Minister - and the only one, so far, to have been assassinated. Born Audley Square (now a car park). Appointed by George III as PM in 1809. Shot in the lobby of the House of Commons, at about...
Felix Sara Felicity Dearden was born on 11 January 1955, a daughter of Norman Peter Dearden (1924-2002) and Joan Kingston Dearden née Richardson (1920-2010). Her birth was registered in the Stockpo...
Both plaques can be seen in our photo: one behind the lamppost on the left; the other attached to the bar in front of the door below the ...
Lansbury's house was destroyed by bombs only a few months after he died. We're sure Tower Hamlets had a good reason for creating a new pl...
The plaque is in the pavement in front of the pillar box.
Natural history collector. Born at the family seat near Manchester where he also died. His museum was at Leicester House on the northern side of Leicester Square and called the Holophusikon, or Hol...
Architect (and writer of ghost stories). Born Heath Street, Hampstead. Much of his work is of educational buildings, quite a few in Oxford. Died at home at 49 Evelyn Garden.
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