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.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Great Storm of 1987
Commemorated ati
Angus McGill
This plaque was installed in 2017, on the 30th anniversary of the Great Storm...
Avenue of trees - Hampstead Heath
This avenue was replanted in November 1988 to replace trees destroyed by a hu...
Great Storm - Holland Park
28th November 1987 The Worshipful The Mayor, Councillor Mrs Elizabeth Russell...
Great Storm - Victoria Embankment Gardens
This oak tree was planted by the Lord Mayor of Westminster, Councillor Kevin ...
Great Storm - Victoria Park
London Plane Platanus X Hispanica. This tree was planted by his Worship the M...
Other Subjects
William Orren
Role on the lost expedition: Able seaman on SS Erebus. See John Franklin.
1 memorial
Bernadette Kearney
Bernadette Frances Kearney was born on 20 August 1964. She died, aged 23 years, on 18 November 1987 in the King's Cross Underground Station fire. At the subsequent fire investigation report she was...
1 memorial
Tsar Nicholas II and family
The Russian Imperial Romanov family were murdered in Ekaterinburg on the 4th July 1918. Tsar Nicholas of Russia (1868 - 1918) ruled from 1 November 1894 - 15 March 1917. WW1 led to the February Re...
1 memorial
Vincent Wells
United Kingdom citizen who died in the terrorist attacks in America on 11 September 2001. Vincent Michael Wells was born on 17 September 1978 in London, the youngest of the three children of Charl...
1 memorial
James Henry Reeve
Employed at the Silvertown Brunner Mond works and killed in the 1917 Silvertown explosion. Imperial War Museum has a page: "Sergeant James Henry Reeve was a serving member of 6th Battalion Essex Re...
1 memorial
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