Crew member of the 'Olga'. Died during the voyage bringing Cleopatra's Needle to London.
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Michael Burns
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Cleopatra's needle - crew members lost
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Armenian Genocide
Inflicted by the Turkish government on the Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire, 1915-18 and 1920-3, with one and a half million victims. However it is a sensitive issue, with the numbers dis...
1 memorial
Bethnal Green WW2 disaster
The worst civilian disaster of WW2. 173 men, women and children lost their lives as they went down into Bethnal Green underground air raid shelter in response to a siren. They died not from a bomb ...
2 memorials
Ladbroke Grove rail disaster / Paddington rail crash
Also referred to as the Paddington rail crash. At 8.06am, a Thames train bound for Bedwyn in Wiltshire left Paddington station. Two minutes later, as it sped along at 41mph, it went through a signa...
2 memorials
all those injured and affected by the Docklands bomb
Two were killed and 39 people were injured by the Canary Wharf IRA bomb.
1 memorial
Shaun Donoghue
A statistician, killed in the Ladbroke Grove rail disaster, aged 45. Andrew Behan has kindly carried out further research: Shaun Donoghue was born on 21 February 1954. He was a statistician from T...
1 memorial
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Atkinsons Carillon
The only carillon in London. Dictionary definition of 'Carillon': a set of bells usually hung in a tower and played either from a set of keys and pedals or mechanically.
1 memorial
Harland & Wolff plaque
E16, Lyle Park
The steps are rather grand for a public park and look to us as if left over from a now-demolished substantial building (factory, head off...
1 subject commemorated,
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