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Bullivant’s Wharf - WW2 bomb

Isle of Dogs - Past Life, Past Lives is an excellent post about this event, with eye-witness accounts, from which we have drawn this brief summary: Bullivant & Co were wire rope-makers with a ...

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Christina Bulow

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Andy Burdett B.A. (Hons)

B.A. (Hons) is a university degree. Andrew Kevin Burdett was born on 12 December 1953. He died, aged 34 years, in the King's Cross Underground Station fire on 18 November 1987. The subsequent fire ...

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Martin Burgess

Died, aged 31, when a construction crane crashed, along with Peter Clark and Michal Whittard. The BBC reported on the inquest. The crane was on the construction site for the HSBC skyscraper in Can...

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Burns' Day Storm

Because this storm hit during the day-time it caused more human casualties than the Great Storm of 1987. Then the death toll was 22, compared with 47 on Burns' Day. Under other names (e.g. Daria) t...

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Michael Burns

Crew member of the 'Olga'. Died during the voyage bringing Cleopatra's Needle to London.

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Paul Butt

Paul Gordon Butt was born on 7 July 1962 and his birth was registered in the Thurrock, Essex, registration district. He was the elder son of Richard A. Butt and Nora A. Butt née Aynge and his young...

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Anthony Lucius Byczkowski

Anthony Lucius Byczkowski was born on 26 September 1955, the only son of the four children of Zbigniew Kazimierz Byczkowski (1911-1970) and Freda J. F. Byczkowski née Chapman who had married in the...

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Elizabeth N. Byers

Elizabeth Norma Byers was born on 17 May 1951, the daughter of Philip G. Byers (1924-2018) and Norma Margaret Byers née Priddle (b.1926) and her birth was registered in the Hendon registration dist...

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Chloe Blanche Byron

Non-British, killed by the Bali bomb.

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