Event    From 16/10/1987  To 16/10/1987

Great Storm of 1987

Categories: Tragedy

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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David McDonald

David McDonald

Role on the lost expedition: Petty officer on SS Terror. See John Franklin.

Person, Exploring, Tragedy

1 memorial
Emma Louise Fox

Emma Louise Fox

British, killed by the Bali bomb, age 32.

Person, Tragedy

1 memorial
Christopher David Pullen

Christopher David Pullen

Christopher Pullen, aged 12, died in Southdown House when a heavy steel fire door, lying off its hinges, propped up in the stairwell of a block of flats, fell on him causing fatal injuries. The doo...

Person, Children, Tragedy

1 memorial
Lear Nadel

Lear Nadel

Killed in the Camberwell Green air-raid, aged 58.

Person, Tragedy

War dead non-military, WW2
1 memorial
Marc Gajardo

Marc Gajardo

British, killed by the Bali bomb, age 30.

Person, Tragedy

1 memorial

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Crocketts Leather Cloth Company Ltd

Crocketts Leather Cloth Company Ltd

Odd that the monument does not use the name "Crocketts" but all the sources give that name for the Leather Cloth factory on this site. More information at London's Ghost Acres. The catalogue of th...

Group, Commerce

1 memorial