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ON THIS DAY IN LONDON
21st March 1968 Hill, Hawkins and Coghill's musical premieres in London
21st March 1963 David Hendon and Douglas Cross' musical premieres in London
21st March 1958 Actor Gary Oldman was born in New Cross, London.
21st March 1925 Born today: Peter Brook, London, director (1776)/TV writer
21st March 1888 Arthur Pinero's Sweet Lavender, premieres in London
21st March 1853 Alfred Cops, zookeeper at the Tower of London, died at the Tower of London 18 years after his menagerie closed.
21st March 1681 3rd Exclusion Parliament meets 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. 1867 Ice Skating Disaster @ Regent's Park Boating Lake, London
12. London's 9/11 Memorial @ Grosvenor Square, London
13. WT Stead lived here @ 5 Smith Square, Westminster, London
14. The Chinese Bridge and Pagoda @ St James Park
15. Green Jackets Bandstand bomb @ Bandstand, Regents Park
16. Sandhurst School @ Minard Road, Catford, London
17. 21/7 Bomb Factory @ 58 Curtis House, Ladderswood Way, New Southgate,
18. The atom bomb was born here @ Southampton Row, London
19. The Gherkin @ 30 St Mary Axe
20. All Hallows Church @ Byward Street, London
21. The Silvertown Explosion @ North Woolwich Road, London
22. Home of Titanic's Duff-Gordons @ 22 Lennox Gardens, Knighsbridge, London
23. Exchange Alley @ Bank, London
24. House of Reeves @ 120 Church Street, Croydon
25. The SS Montgomery Wreck @ Thames off Sheerness
26. The Princess Alice Disaster @ Galleon's Reach, Plumstead
27. Thames Flood Barrier @ Unity Way, Woolwich
28. Spanish Rooms Fire @ 18 Denmark Place, Tottenham Court Road
29. Houses Collapsed into Hole @ Ridley Road, Bromley
30. Thai Chilli Sauce Terror Cloud @ Thai Cottage, 34 D'arblay Street, Soho, London
31. Dr Johnson's Dictionary House @ 17 Gough Square, London
32. Turner and Rushgrove House @ Rushgrove Street, Woolwich
33. The Battles of Brentford @ Syon Park, Brentford, Middlesex
34. Lepers, Beer, and Thespians @ 268-269 Tottenham Court Road
35. Site of huge gunpowder explosion @ 43 Great Tower Street, London
36. The Cutty Sark @ 2 Greenwich Church Street, Greenwich, London
37. Holland House @ Holland Park, Holland Walk, Kensington
38. St Magnus the Martyr @ Lower Thames Street, London
39. Scene of Great Tooley St Fire @ Cottons Wharf, Southwark, London
40. Bomb Plotters Flat @ 386A Forest Road, Walthamstow
41. Edgware Gas Explosion @ Highview Gardens, Edgware, London
42. The Piccadilly Tornado @ 12 Sherwood Street, Piccadilly, London
43. The Piccadilly Hotel's Tornado @ 12 Sherwood Street, Piccadilly, London
44. The Camden Markets @ Camden Lock Place
45. Grenfell Tower @ Station Walk, North Kensington
46. Vincent C. Richmond lived here @ 24 Silverdale Road, Highams Park
47. The Apollo Theatre @ Shaftesbury Avenue
mapping London's most interesting and unusual places and history
