Lighthouse Automation Programme
The conversion to automatic operation of all the lighthouses and light vessels. The last one to be done (perfectly timed to occur on Trafalgar Day) was North Foreland Light in Kent. For the 400 yea...
1 memorial
Matchgirls' strike
A strike of the women and teenage girls working at the Bryant and May Factory. Annie Besant had published an article about the poor working conditions at the factory, 'White Slavery in London'. Thi...
5 memorials
Great Plague
Europe suffered a number of bubonic plaque epidemics from 1347 – 1750. The last major outbreak in England was in 1665-6 and killed about 100,000 people, 20% of London’s population at the time. It...
1 memorial
Olympic Games 1908, & Stadium
The original plan was that Italy would host these games but in 1906 they dropped out, partly due to the consequential costs of the 1906 eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Within a week the IOC accepted B...
1 memorial
Tsunami in the Indian Ocean
More than 230,000 people died, 153 being British.
Event, Tragedy, Africa, Burma, India, Indian Sub-continent, Indonesia, Malaysia, Southeast Asia
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Doggett's Coat and Badge
The prize for a rowing race for Thames watermen. Claimed as the oldest race in the world, it was founded by Thomas Doggett in 1715, to commemorate the anniversary of the accession of King George I...
1 memorial
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Submarine War Memorial - 70th anniversary
The memorial has been maintained by the Submariners' Old Comrades, London.
1 memorial
The Duchess of Duke Street
BBC television series, loosely based on the career of Rosa Lewis. It starred Gemma Jones as Louise Trotter and Christopher Cazenove as her nephew.
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