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Event    From 16/10/1987  To 16/10/1987

Great Storm of 1987

Categories: Tragedy

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 England and France.

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Great Storm of 1987

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Angus McGill

This plaque was installed in 2017, on the 30th anniversary of the Great Storm...

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Avenue of trees - Hampstead Heath

This avenue was replanted in November 1988 to replace trees destroyed by a hu...

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Great Storm - Holland Park

28th November 1987 The Worshipful The Mayor, Councillor Mrs Elizabeth Russell...

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Great Storm - Victoria Embankment Gardens

This oak tree was planted by the Lord Mayor of Westminster, Councillor Kevin ...

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Great Storm - Victoria Park

London Plane Platanus X Hispanica. This tree was planted by his Worship the M...

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Prince of Wales pub, Mackenzie Road

Prince of Wales pub, Mackenzie Road

144 Mackenzie Road. This photo dates from the 1930s. Destroyed by a WW2 V2 rocket.

Building, Community / Clubs, Food & Drink, Tragedy

1 memorial
Shaun Donoghue

Shaun Donoghue

A statistician, killed in the Ladbroke Grove rail disaster, aged 45. Andrew Behan has kindly carried out further research: Shaun Donoghue was born on 21 February 1954. He was a statistician from T...

Person, Tragedy

1 memorial
Rene Tkacik

Rene Tkacik

Rene Tkacik was killed while working on the Crossrail tunnel. Aged 43, a hugely experienced construction worker, he left his family in Slovakia to work here, living in Hackney Road. He was in an e...

Person, Tragedy, Czechoslovakia

1 memorial
William Luke Duffy

William Luke Duffy

A Writer/Chief Engineer's Clerk 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...

Person, Engineering, Tragedy, Ireland

1 memorial
Inam Bashir

Inam Bashir

One of two killed by the Docklands IRA bomb. They were both workers in the newsagent’s directly opposite the bomb. Our colleague Andrew Behan has researched this man and found the photo: there is ...

Person, Tragedy

1 memorial