More than 230,000 people died, 153 being British.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Tsunami in the Indian Ocean
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Tsunami memorial
120-tonne block of granite, 4.1 metre cube with a corner removed. According...
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Hughes Mansions
Flats built in honour of Judge Thomas Hughes. On 27 March 1945 part of the building was destroyed by the last V2 rocket to hit London (another one fell on Orpington, Kent on the same date), killing...
2 memorials
1 memorial
Great Storm of 1987
In the early hours of Friday 16 October 1987 a great storm struck South East England. In four violent hours London lost 250,000 trees. Its skyline changed for ever. 22 people were killed in Englan...
11 memorials
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
1 memorial
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Bethlehem Hospital - first
EC2, Liverpool Street
Site of the first Bethlehem Hospital 1247 - 1676. The Corporation of the City of London
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Richard Desmond
Wealthy publisher and philanthropist. Born North London. Owner of Express Newspapers. Plays in a charity rock bank with Roger Daltrey.
1 memorial
Charles Booth
Philanthropist and shipowner. Born 27 Bedford North Street, Liverpool. On his father's death he took control of the family shipping business and extended it to include steamships. Following his inv...
2 memorials
Peter Hill
Elizabethan seafarer. With Robert Bell he co-founded the St Mary Rotherhithe Free School, to educate the sons of local seafarers.
1 memorial
Charles Laughton - W1
W1, Percy Street, 15
Charles Laughton, 1899 - 1962, actor, lived here, 1928 - 1931. English Heritage
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
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