Entries from Londonist tagged with 'eastham'
September 22, 2007
19. Freakish Falls! During the August of 1920 in Woodford, stones poured from the sky for three consecutive days without explanation. Four years later at Eltham, Plumstead, Woolwich and Shooters Hill a great ice storm battered the area, despite the afternoon being the hottest for two years! The hailstones were the size of eggs, and some jagged in nature, measuring five-inches which fell from the sky, cutting residents who ran for cover. In January......
Continue Reading "The Saturday Strangeness"August 27, 2007
Londonist was deeply shocked and saddened at the weekend when we learned of the death of promising Queens Park Rangers striker Ray Jones. Tomorrow would have been his nineteenth birthday, but just after midnight on Saturday morning a car he was travelling in collided with a double decker bus in East Ham and Jones, along with two of the four other occupants of the vehicle, Idris Olasupo and Jess Basilva, died from their injuries.......
Continue Reading "Football: In Memoriam - Ray Jones"January 11, 2007
The Bank of England have raised interest rates for the third time in five months. This time to 5.25%. After yesterday's confusing news from Real Madrid, it's been confirmed that David Beckham will leave the Spanish squad for LA Galaxy at the end of the season. It's Simon Amstell vs Preston. We know which side we're on. A police investigation has started after a mother and her two children were found dead in a......
Continue Reading "Extra, Extra"March 28, 2006
Your partner of nine years, your soulmate, has left you and run off to Italy with another woman. She is an older lady, THE old lady, and you can't help but notice the size of her bank balance and the quality of the contents of her jewellery box. She has a certain class, a glittering reputation, and deep inside, you know that you're a little intimidated by her. And now your old love has......
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