Person    | Male  Died 15/8/1853

William Harris

Categories: Tragedy

William Harris

Construction worker killed in the fatal accident at Crystal Palace.

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk

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William Harris

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Crystal Palace workmen's grave

Twelve workmen were killed, but we are unable to find out where the other two...

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Walworth Boy Scouts Tragedy

Walworth Boy Scouts Tragedy

On Saturday the 3rd August 1912, the 2nd Walworth Troop of five adults and twenty-four young scouts sailed from Waterloo Bridge for Leysdown on the Isle of Sheppey. They moored at Erith for the nig...

Event, Children, Tragedy

6 memorials
Marco Antonio Farias

Marco Antonio Farias

Non-British, killed by the Bali bomb.

Person, Tragedy

1 memorial
Lieutenant Colonel David Waring Eustace, MBE

Lieutenant Colonel David Waring Eustace, MBE

David Waring Eustace was born on 2 July 1944 in Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset, a son of Colonel Frank Albert Eustace, OBE, Royal Marines, (1908-1976) and Rosemary Anne Eustace née King (1917-1978). His ...

Person, Armed Forces, Tragedy

1 memorial
Carina Rafling

Carina Rafling

Non-British, killed by the Bali bomb.

Person, Tragedy

1 memorial
Simon Giles Atlee

Simon Giles Atlee

Simon Giles Atlee was born on 4 May 1971 according to The Times website. He was the younger child of Stephen Richard Atlee (1946-2018) and Christine P. Atlee née Audritt (b.1947), his birth being r...

Person, Photography, Tragedy, Southeast Asia

1 memorial

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Burns' Day Storm

Burns' Day Storm

Because this storm hit during the day-time it caused more human casualties than the Great Storm of 1987. Then the death toll was 22, compared with 47 on Burns' Day. Under other names (e.g. Daria) t...

Event, Tragedy

2 memorials
Furnival's Inn

Furnival's Inn

EC1, Holborn, 273, Prudential Building

Caroline's Miscellany visited this amazing building at Open House 2011 and has some great photos of the inside.

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
Euston Arch

Euston Arch

The massive Doric arch, designed by Philip Hardwick, was the entrance to the original 1837 Euston Station which was on Drummond Street (which used to run further east than it does now) quite close ...

Building, Transport

2 memorials
John Birnie Philip

John Birnie Philip

John Birnie Philip was born on 23 November 1824 in London, the third son of the five children of William Philip (1781-1865)  and Elizabeth Philip née Rhind (b.1786). His father was a tailor and he ...

Person, Sculpture

61 memorials
Made Sujana

Made Sujana

Non-British, killed by the Bali bomb.

Person, Tragedy

1 memorial