32 firemen and 2 firewomen, including:  Hilda Dupree, Winifred Peters, three crews from Beckenham along with several other more local crews from Hackney and Homerton. More information at Firemen Re...
Fire fighter who died as a result of a fire at Covent Garden. Charles Fisher was born on 14 November 1906 in Bermondsey, London, a son of Joseph William Fisher (b.1876) and Alice Ellen Fisher née ...
For more information about this hero click on the picture of his plaque.
Role on the lost expedition: Captain on SS Erebus. See John Franklin.
Junior Boilermaker on the RMS Titanic. A full résumé of his life can be found on the Encyclopedia Titanica website. He is also commemorated on the Engineers Memorial, Andrews East Park, Above Bar...
Semley, Wiltshire was the home of Yvonne Fletcher until she became a Police Constable in the Metropolitan Police. She was shot while on duty outside the Libyan Embassy in St James Square, London an...
From Environment Agency:  “In 1874, the tide in the Thames rose 4 feet 3½ inches above Trinity mark, and inundated the south bank of the river along Lambeth, Bankside, and Rotherhithe, and even as ...
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