Arding and Hobbs 1909 fire
Built in 1885 Arding and Hobbs department store was the largest south of the River. See Neighbour for a photo of the building. It was destroyed by a fire on 20 December 1909. Newspapers from the ...
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Battersea Arts Centre fire
Built as Battersea Town Hall this building became became a community arts centre in 1974. Wikipedia has a plan of the ground floor showing the Grand Hall at the rear of the building. This, and t...
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The Beatles and the Rolling Stones first meeting
The Beatles and the Rolling Stones first met at the Crawdaddy Club on Sunday 14 April 1963.
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Fleet River floods
The River Fleet is known to have flooded in the area from St Pancras and southwards in the 13th century, and then specifically in 1317 and 1768 and then floods are recorded in 1809, 1818 and 1846. ...
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Purley air crash
A de Havilland DH.34 G-EBBX of Imperial Airways, which had only just taken off from Croydon Airport bound for Paris, crashed at Purley in Surrey. All seven passengers and the pilot were killed. A ...
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Bloody Assizes
A series of trials which started at Winchester in the aftermath of the Battle of Sedgemoor, which ended the Monmouth Rebellion. Further trials took place at Salisbury, Dorchester and Taunton, and i...
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Old Bailey WW2 bomb
A bomb landed on the Old Bailey on 10/11 May 1941 destroying the north-west corner. The mural shows the damaged building, which is also recorded in this photograph held by the Science Museum Group ...
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Downhills air raid shelter attack
The shelter which contained about 300 people, suffered a direct hit at about 10.30 pm on 19 September 1940. More than 100 people were injured in the attack. 42 people were killed:14 men, 24 women a...
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Archway V2 attack, 1944
The bomb landed at the junction of Boothby, Giesbach and Grovedale Roads, with residents from the adjacent St John’s Way also suffering in the attack. 35 adults and children died, and 219 were inju...
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Kingston Hospital - flying bomb
The bomb landed on a tennis court by the nurses’ home. It destroyed the outpatients' department and badly damaged many other areas including the casualty department. On this 1940 map the building...
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