explosion

More Londony trivia for a Monday morning.

Here’s what we’ve learned whilst you’ve been remembering: A body was found in the attic of a house after a suspicious explosion in Battersea yesterday. The Bush Theatre is moving round the corner. Ecologists are celebrating the discovery of rare creepie crawlies in Coldfall Wood …

Numerous reports via Twitter suggest some kind of explosion has taken place on Oxford Street, close to Bond Street Tube. Some reports suggest the location as Foot Locker. Police have cordoned off the area and buses are being diverted. Some say a building has partially …

Last week in Londonist, in numbers and the photo those numbers mysteriously translate into… 300 pounds per week (or near enough) to live in new student accommodation in Nido Spitalfields 100 contestable reasons why Boris Johnson is the bestest ever Mayor, ever 920 steps to …

Update 14:00: Officials say the fire – caused by a burst gas pipe – is under control. No one was hurt, but the flat is badly damaged. Sounds like end of story, so no more updates unless other developments emerge. Is there a word yet …

85 Bell Lane before the blast, as seen in Google Street View. A building in Hendon was completely destroyed yesterday in an explosion that police describe as ‘suspicious’. Three people were injured in the blast, which reduced 85 Bell Lane to rubble. The explosion in …

This Week In London’s History Monday – 19th January 1917: A fire breaks out at a munitions factory in Silvertown, East London, igniting some 50 tonnes of TNT. The resulting explosion kills 73 people, injures some 400 more, and damages as many as 70,000 buildings …

76. A Gaggle Of Ghosts: Part Six “There can be no doubt of the phenomena. I have seen them, myself” so said the Rev. A.L. Gardiner in 1921 as London was hit by a mysterious mini-plague pertaining to the exploding of coal from grates. Ordinary, …

Hammersmith and City (Whitechapel to Barking) and District line (Whitechapel to Plaistow) trains are again suspended this morning while the Royal Engineers’ bomb experts detonate and defuse the ticking World War II UXB. This is all happening on Diamond Geezer’s doorstep and he points out …

Exactly what caused last Thursday’s explosion in a residential street in South Harrow is still being investigated. Some of the evacuated residents have now been allowed to return to their homes but police forensic experts continue to examine the site of the incident which demolished …