Our colleague, Andrew Behan, has researched this young man: Owen Wesley Thompson was born on 11 September 1964 and died, aged 16 years, on 18 January 1981 in a fire at party being held at 439 New Cross Road, London, SE14 6TA. He was buried on 6 February 1981 in Lewisham.
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Owen Thompson
In memory of the young people who died as a result of the New Cross fire 18th...
Unveiled by Sybil Phoenix, a community leader who had been called to the scen...
Also referred to as the Paddington rail crash. At 8.06am, a Thames train boun...
3,470 prisoners were taken, men women and children, and it was decided that t...
