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ON THIS DAY IN LONDON
17th July 1968 Beatle's animated film Yellow Submarine premieres in London
17th July 1965 Born today: Alex Winter, London England, actor (Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure)
17th July 1958 Peter Shaffer's Five Finger Exercise, premieres in London
17th July 1949 Born today: Mick Tucker, London, rock drummer (Sweet Harlesden)
17th July 1947 Born today: Camilla Parker-Bowles, London England, Prince Charles' wife.
17th July 1909 Born today: Hardy Amies, London England, royal dressmaker (Queen Elizabeth II)
17th July 1894 Born today: Mary Clare, London England, actress (Evil Mind, Young and Innocent)
17th July 1717 George Frideric Handel's The Water Music premiered when King George I requested a concert on a barge on the River Thames.
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. Houses Collapsed into Hole @ Ridley Road, Bromley
12. First Bomb of World War 1 @ 31 Nevill Road, Hackney, London
13. The Great Fire of London @ Pudding Lane
14. All Hallows Church @ Byward Street, London
15. Blow Up Bridge @ Macclesfield Bridge, Regents Park, London
16. The atom bomb was born here @ Southampton Row, London
17. WT Stead lived here @ 5 Smith Square, Westminster, London
18. House of Reeves @ 120 Church Street, Croydon
19. The Battles of Brentford @ Syon Park, Brentford, Middlesex
20. St Magnus the Martyr @ Lower Thames Street, London
21. Lepers, Beer, and Thespians @ 268-269 Tottenham Court Road
22. Site of huge gunpowder explosion @ 43 Great Tower Street, London
23. Grenfell Tower @ Station Walk, North Kensington
24. The Gherkin @ 30 St Mary Axe
25. 21/7 Bomb Factory @ 58 Curtis House, Ladderswood Way, New Southgate,
26. Edgware Gas Explosion @ Highview Gardens, Edgware, London
27. 1867 Ice Skating Disaster @ Regent's Park Boating Lake, London
28. Scene of Great Tooley St Fire @ Cottons Wharf, Southwark, London
29. The Apollo Theatre @ Shaftesbury Avenue
30. The Piccadilly Tornado @ 12 Sherwood Street, Piccadilly, London
31. Holland House @ Holland Park, Holland Walk, Kensington
32. The Piccadilly Hotel's Tornado @ 12 Sherwood Street, Piccadilly, London
33. London's 9/11 Memorial @ Grosvenor Square, London
34. Turner and Rushgrove House @ Rushgrove Street, Woolwich
35. The Silvertown Explosion @ North Woolwich Road, London
36. Bomb Plotters Flat @ 386A Forest Road, Walthamstow
37. The SS Montgomery Wreck @ Thames off Sheerness
38. Green Jackets Bandstand bomb @ Bandstand, Regents Park
39. Thai Chilli Sauce Terror Cloud @ Thai Cottage, 34 D'arblay Street, Soho, London
40. The Chinese Bridge and Pagoda @ St James Park
41. Thames Flood Barrier @ Unity Way, Woolwich
42. Sandhurst School @ Minard Road, Catford, London
43. Spanish Rooms Fire @ 18 Denmark Place, Tottenham Court Road
44. Vincent C. Richmond lived here @ 24 Silverdale Road, Highams Park
45. The Princess Alice Disaster @ Galleon's Reach, Plumstead
46. Exchange Alley @ Bank, London
47. The Camden Markets @ Camden Lock Place
mapping London's most interesting and unusual places and history
