Died, aged 31, when a construction crane crashed, along with Peter Clark and Michal Whittard.
The reported on the inquest. The crane was on the construction site for the HSBC skyscraper in Canary Wharf. The three men were in a crane, called a climbing frame, being used to lengthen another crane. The inquest failed to establish why the climbing frame began twisting and then crashed 25 storeys to the ground. The full report is .
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Martin Burgess
In memory of Martin Burgess, Peter Clark and Michael Whittard, who died on 21...
Born Flintshire, Wales.  Came to London in 1807 to train as a lawyer at the Temple. Called to the bar in 1811. But he was unsuccessful in this profession and turned to writing about Welsh history...
John William Coote Johnson was born in 1890 in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, one of the twelve children of William Henry Johnson (circa 1855-1925) and Ann Johnson née Coote (circa 1861-1930). His birth was ...
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