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4th April 1984 Michael Frayn's Benefactors premieres in London
4th April 1956 Enid Bagnold's Chalk Garden, premieres in London
4th April 1940 Born today: Bijan, Iran, mens apparel designer (Beverly Hills, NYC, London)
4th April 1929 New Moon musical opens in London
Top Disaster-related places to visit in London.
Events that caused great destruction or great loss of life don't come around very often. Every now and again someone or something wages a war on the city and it's inhabitants.
TOP 10 DISASTER RELATED SIGHTS IN LONDON:
MORE DISASTER SIGHTS:
11. Blow Up Bridge @ Macclesfield Bridge, Regents Park, London
12. The Great Fire of London @ Pudding Lane
13. Houses Collapsed into Hole @ Ridley Road, Bromley
14. The Chinese Bridge and Pagoda @ St James Park
15. Cafe de Paris @ 4 Coventry Street, Piccadilly
16. Sandhurst School @ Minard Road, Catford, London
17. Grenfell Tower @ Station Walk, North Kensington
18. Spanish Rooms Fire @ 18 Denmark Place, Tottenham Court Road
19. The Piccadilly Tornado @ 12 Sherwood Street, Piccadilly, London
20. House of Reeves @ 120 Church Street, Croydon
21. 21/7 Bomb Factory @ 58 Curtis House, Ladderswood Way, New Southgate,
22. Scene of Great Tooley St Fire @ Cottons Wharf, Southwark, London
23. The Silvertown Explosion @ North Woolwich Road, London
24. St Magnus the Martyr @ Lower Thames Street, London
25. Site of huge gunpowder explosion @ 43 Great Tower Street, London
26. The Piccadilly Hotel's Tornado @ 12 Sherwood Street, Piccadilly, London
27. 1867 Ice Skating Disaster @ Regent's Park Boating Lake, London
28. Exchange Alley @ Bank, London
29. The SS Montgomery Wreck @ Thames off Sheerness
30. First Bomb of World War 1 @ 31 Nevill Road, Hackney, London
31. The Battles of Brentford @ Syon Park, Brentford, Middlesex
32. Earls Court Big Wheel @ Earl's Court, London
33. Thames Flood Barrier @ Unity Way, Woolwich
34. Bomb Plotters Flat @ 386A Forest Road, Walthamstow
35. All Hallows Church @ Byward Street, London
36. Turner and Rushgrove House @ Rushgrove Street, Woolwich
37. WT Stead lived here @ 5 Smith Square, Westminster, London
38. Lepers, Beer, and Thespians @ 268-269 Tottenham Court Road
39. Druid's Arch Bombing @ Druid Street, Southwark, London
40. Thai Chilli Sauce Terror Cloud @ Thai Cottage, 34 D'arblay Street, Soho, London
41. Holland House @ Holland Park, Holland Walk, Kensington
42. The Gherkin @ 30 St Mary Axe
43. The Camden Markets @ Camden Lock Place
44. Vincent C. Richmond lived here @ 24 Silverdale Road, Highams Park
45. Dr Johnson's Dictionary House @ 17 Gough Square, London
46. The Cutty Sark @ 2 Greenwich Church Street, Greenwich, London
47. The Apollo Theatre @ Shaftesbury Avenue
48. The atom bomb was born here @ Southampton Row, London
mapping London's most interesting and unusual places and history
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