At least two firemen from the Silvertown Fire Station responded to the fire at the TNT factory across the road. They lost their lives when that fire led to the Silvertown Explosion. The plaque refers also to firemen's families, which suggests that some of the firemen lived close to the station, within the range of the destruction caused by the explosion.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Silvertown firemen
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Silvertown explosion - firemen
Dedicated to the memory of the firemen and their families killed and injured ...
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Jas. G. A. Johnston
Resident of the Central Ward, Hendon who served and died in WW1.
A. E. J. Richardson
Resident of the Central Ward, Hendon who served and died in WW1.
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Tudor House
There seems to be confusion between this building on St Leonard’s Street, demolished c.1900, and Bromley Hall, which is still extant on the Blackwall Tunnel Approach Road. The normally very trustwo...
Douglas Belcher VC
KT6, Ewell Road
The Belcher plaque is on the stone in the foreground of our photo, and the St Mark's cairn and WW2 memorials behind it.
2 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
Stanmore war memorial
HA7, Rectory Lane, St John the Evangelist, Stanmore
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58 subjects commemorated
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor - Norwood
SE25, Dagnall Park, 30
This was the first plaque erected to a black person, in 1975.
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