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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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Samuel Saunders

Samuel Saunders

Employed at the Silvertown Brunner Mond works and killed in the 1917 Silvertown explosion. Imperial War Museum has a page. More information about Saunders on another IWM page.

Person, Tragedy

1 memorial
Jane Roberta Wynham Simpson

Jane Roberta Wynham Simpson

Jane Roberta Wynham Hollinger was born on 29 November 1951. She married Andrew K. Simpson in the 1st quarter of 1972 in the Islington Registration District, London. She was injured on 28 February ...

Person, Tragedy

1 memorial
Guiseppe Pinelli

Guiseppe Pinelli

Anarchist. Born Milan, Italy. Worked as a railroad fitter. One of a number of anarchists who were taken in for questioning following a bomb that went off in Milan killing 17 people. Pinelli was see...

Person, Politics & Administration, Tragedy, Italy

1 memorial
Bronwyn Robyn Ross

Bronwyn Robyn Ross

Non-British, killed by the Bali bomb.

Person, Tragedy

1 memorial
Anna Cecilia Aviles Marcillo

Anna Cecilia Aviles Marcillo

Non-British, killed by the Bali bomb.

Person, Tragedy

1 memorial