Trainee architect, 29, died after she was caught on the inside of a left-turning cement mixer as she cycled to work at Metropolitan Workshop in Cowcross Street. She was living in Bethnal Green but her home was a village near Hamburg, Germany.
October 2009: a coroner returned a verdict of accidental death. The driver, Vladas Urbanas, claimed that he had looked in his mirror and that Rebecca must have been in "a blind spot".
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Rebecca Goossen
Aged 28, returning from work to his home in Wanstead, hit by an Olympic media bus (ferrying journalists to the Olympic site). Died at the scene. Dan was a keen cyclist, having biked across Thailan...
Aged 33, killed by a left-turning lorry, leaving his girlfriend and 19-month-old daughter. A set builder on photo shoots for magazines. Cycling from his studio in Hackney to a nearby hardware shop,...
Gemmill was killed by a tipper truck while cycling to work at 9.30am on a Thursday. 55 years old, a designer, she had led the recent acclaimed re-design and refurbishment of the V&A. She had a...
The Evening Standard reported: "He moved to the capital 12 years ago and worked as an interactive designer for Clerkenwell-based Graphic Alliance ..". Early in the morning of 6 July 2018 Soren was...
Born Ukraine. Killed on a Friday at about 16:30 when hit by a left-turning tipper lorry at the treacherous Bow roundabout, local to where she lived. Aged 34. The lorry driver was arrested on sus...
Photographer, painter, interior designer and designer for stage and screen. Born 21 Langland Gardens, Hampstead. Excelling in a number of art forms he had equally catholic tastes in his affairs, wi...
Person, Cinema, Craft / Design, Photography, Seriously Famous, Theatre
The Evelina Children's Hospital was founded by Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild and named for his wife, who had died aged 27 with her child in labour in 1866. It was planned by Dr Arthur Farre in a pu...
Just like a Hollywood movie that doesn't know when to end, Napoleon escaped from Elba, and returned for one last attempt at world domination. The memorial at the station refers to the "Allied armie...
The youth of the Hackney Wick district who served under the leadership of Winston Churchill.
Ambassador. Born Moscow into an old aristocratic family in the Crimea. The third count Woronzow. Russian Ambassador to the UK, 1784 – 1806 (his brother Alexander, having preceded him in that role, ...
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