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
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New Cross Fire - Fordham Park
In memory of the young people who died as a result of the New Cross fire 18th...
New Cross Fire - Town Hall
Unveiled by Sybil Phoenix, a community leader who had been called to the scen...
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Thomas Blanky
Role on the lost expedition: Officer on SS Terror. See John Franklin.
1 memorial
Walter Ernest Sharpe
Employed at the Silvertown Brunner Mond works and killed in the 1917 Silvertown explosion.
1 memorial
1 memorial
Thomas Evans
Role on the lost expedition: Boy on SS Terror. See John Franklin.
1 memorial
Hither Green Zeppelin raid
This was the last Zeppelin raid on London. The airship had intended to bomb industrial sites, but had been blown off course. Normally these ships could be brought down by anti-aircraft fire, but it...
1 memorial
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Charles Lyell
Born at Kinnordy House, near Kirriemuir, Angus, Scotland. Geologist. A practicing lawyer, deliberately working all over the country so he could study the local geology. His multi-volume "Principles...
3 memorials
Royal College of Physicians - EC4
EC4, Warwick Lane
This plaque is on a very dull building next door to the actual site of the Physicians' building, now occupied by the splendid 1888 red br...
1 subject commemorated,
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1 memorial
Highgate Cemetery - Fire - L01 - Fisher
N6, Swain's Lane, Highgate Cemetery
The plot consists of 36 graves acquired by the London Fire Brigade Widows and Orphans Fund (founded in1882 by Massey Shaw, who, probably ...
1 subject commemorated
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