A web manager and trade union representative at London Metropolitan University, Unison have a memorial page for him. Killed in a all too familiar 'left-hook' collision, unseen by a lorry turning left. This occurred at 8.30am Tuesday 21st June 2011 and Peter died 4 days later in the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel. From ThisisLondon: "Police said the lorry drove off without stopping but the vehicle and the driver were later traced. A man in his fifties was arrested on suspicion of causing death by careless driving and was bailed to return to an east London police station in September."
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Peter McGreal
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Jayne Helliwell
Illustrator and designer, aged 25, killed cycling on Oxford Street when run over by a bus. The driver, Carlton Lewars, was charged with dangerous driving but was, as so often happens, acquitted. ...
1 memorial
Antony Lee "Smudge" Smith
Graphic designer from Clitheroe, Lancashire. Cycling to work one morning was killed by a left-turning truck. The ghostbikes.org website gives more details about this cyclist and our colleague And...
1 memorial
Moira Gemmill
Gemmill was killed by a tipper truck while cycling to work at 9.30am on a Thursday. 55 years old, a designer, she had led the recent acclaimed re-design and refurbishment of the V&A. She had a...
1 memorial
Henry Warwick
For many years commuted by bike from West Drayton to his job as a cycle courier at Rico Logistics in Tabernacle Street, EC2. Died when hit by a left-turning Terravision airport bus at about 1 pm o...
1 memorial
Stephanie Turner
Stephanie was 29-years old and newly engaged. She was a physiotherapist who worked for the NHS, a tri-athlete, who ran marathons and climbed mountains. Her friends remember her as someone that lit ...
1 memorial
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John Marshall
Native of Stamford in Lincolnshire. A white-baker who lived in a mansion house in Axe Yard, Southwark (now Newcomen Street), where his father, also a white-baker had lived before him. Widowered an...
1 memorial
WW2 aircraft crash
The story of this crash is very well told at Their Last Night. Here we give a brief summary. The plane was a a Mark 5 Halifax No DK 253 of 427 Squadron based at Leeming, Yorkshire. It was one o...
1 memorial
Prince of Wales WW2 bomb - lost
SW9, Clapham Road, 294
Our image comes from Paradise Memorial Garden. SarfLondonDunc informs that the plaque's absence was noticed by someone on 18 Nov 2009, ...
2 subjects commemorated,
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Charles Arthur Clutterbuck
Member of the ARP/Civil Defence Services - stretcher bearer. Andrew Behan has kindly provided this research: Charles Arthur Clutterbuck was born on 8 May 1908 in Millwall, the youngest of the nine...
War dead non-military, WW2
1 memorial
Tommy Trinder
Actor and comedian. Born Thomas Edward Trinder at 54 Wellfield Road, Streatham. His career started in music halls and graduated to West End theatres, films and television. He was the first compere ...
1 memorial
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