In 1987, the King's Cross fire occurred on November 18th at London's King's Cross Underground station, a tragic event where 31 people died and over 100 were injured, started by a discarded match igniting grease and dust under a wooden escalator, leading to a massive fireball that exposed critical safety flaws in the system, prompting major reforms like replacing wooden escalators, banning smoking, and improving emergency procedures.
In January 2020, just weeks before the pandemic arrived in Australia, the former government removed the 1:30am lockout provisions from the CBD and Oxford Street, followed by Kings Cross in 2021. Since that time, alcohol related night-time assaults have followed a downward trend in the former lockout areas.
More than 150 firefighters and 30 fire engines were called to a blaze at King's Cross station at on the evening of 18 November 1987. The blaze, which is thought to have started around 7:25pm, when a lit match fell through a gap on a wooden escalator and set fire to the grease and litter beneath the steps.
At 19:45, there was a flashover and a jet of flames shot up the escalator shaft, striking the ticket hall's ceiling and filling it with intense heat and thick black smoke, killing or seriously injuring most of the people still in the ticket hall.
Opened in 1907, Aldwych (also known as “Strand”) was once a terminus of the Piccadilly line, serving trains to and from nearby Holborn station. However, it was never as heavily used as intended and closed to the public in 1994.
The story goes that the final resting place of Boudicca, the warrior queen of the Iceni, is under Platform nine at King's Cross Station. She ended up there following her last battle with the Romans in AD 61. The battle took place at Broad Ford, in the valley between King's Cross and St Pancras.
Yes, Pudding Lane still exists in the City of London, near the Monument to the Great Fire of London, though it's a modern street with a plaque marking the spot where the Great Fire of London began in 1666 at Thomas Farriner's bakery. While the original bakery site might be slightly off the current lane, the street itself remains, connecting Eastcheap and Thames Street.
The revival in Kings Cross is no accident, and has been carefully planned through a fresh policy embrace. The 2025 event will run in direct partnership with the 24-hour Economy Commissioner's Office NSW, which has become a lead funder and policy driver to help guide the campaign's success.
35 years ago today, on 18th November 1987, a fire at King's Cross Underground station - London's busiest - killed 31 people including Soho's Station Officer Colin Townsley of the London Fire Brigade and injured over 100.
The little baby thing in Kings Cross is what was left of Lord Voldemort's soul. It's all tiny and gross b/c of all the damage he did to it when creating the Horcruxes.
Moorgate tube crash. The Moorgate tube crash occurred on 28 February 1975 at 8:46 am on the London Underground's Northern City Line; 43 people died and 74 were injured after a train failed to stop at the line's southern terminus, Moorgate station, and crashed into its end wall.
There is some confusion as to where he is buried with some assuming that after his death, he was buried in the north cemetery in Leavesden Country Park. However, the Watford Observer suggests that he was removed from the hospital and buried in East Ham Jewish Cemetery, London.
Where is Anne Boleyn buried? The closest we can get to Anne today is by visiting her final resting place; she is buried in the Chapel Royal of St Peter ad Vincula at the Tower of London.
The poorest parts of London are concentrated in boroughs like Tower Hamlets, Hackney, and Newham, especially regarding income deprivation for children and older people, with pockets of poverty also in Brent, Barking & Dagenham, and parts of Westminster and Kensington & Chelsea. These areas face high rates of poverty, with some wards like Northumberland Park (Haringey) and Stonebridge (Brent) being among the most deprived.
That said, across recent years (patterns visible in Met and ONS dashboards) the highest volumes of theft and street-theft reports tend to be concentrated in central shopping and nightlife boroughs — notably Westminster (West End, Oxford Street, Leicester Square), Camden (markets, busy streets), Lambeth (parts of ...
Details: Farringdon station is notoriously haunted by Anne Naylor, who was murdered by her employer in the 18th century. Her body was dumped where the station now stands. Blood-curdling screams are commonly reported here, adding to the station's eerie reputation.
The Bethnal Green Tube shelter disaster. The UK suffered heavy bombing by the German air force from September 1940 to May 1941, a time known as the Blitz.
