This Week In London’s History Monday – 12th January 1619: The Banqueting House at Whitehall is destroyed by fire. It would soon be rebuilt. Tuesday – 13th January 1583: Eight people are killed when scaffold seating collapses at the Bear Garden – an arena for …
London was thrown into a mass panic this morning when plummeting temperatures caused a dusting of ice-like crystals to drift from the sky. A hurried press release from the Meterological Office confirmed that the substance was in fact ‘snow’, which apparently falls every year in …
89. The Freak Storm of 1925 It was like a scene from a blockbuster disaster movie in the end, but how it all began was a mystery, like so many freakish weather shows. The Kentish Mercury and Kentish Independent of the 24th July were both …
This Week In London’s History Monday – 14th January 1437: The Great Stone Gate at the south side of London Bridge collapses, taking down two bridge arches and several houses with it. Tuesday – 15th January 1867: The ice on Regent’s Park Lake gives way …
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