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Following is a list of sites in London associated
with Disaters
- Bunhill Field - Plague Graveyard
- One of the Plague pits. This is the largest unconsecrated graveyard in Europe. John Bunyan, Daniel Defoe,, William Blake, George Fox are buried here.
- Charterhouse - Plague Graveyard
- One of the Plague pits
- Cut-throat Lane - Slum
- Charles Dickens drew attention to the conditions in 1850 when he wrote of "a plague spot scarcely equalled for its insalubrity by any other in London". From 1846-8, life expectancy in the area was just 11 years 7 months - compared with the London average of 37. Today, singer Robbie Williams and actress Liz Hurley live in this area.
- Great Fire Of London - Disaster
- The Great Fire of 1666 started on the 2 Sep in a bakery in Pudding Lane. It destroyed 13,000 houses and killed 9.
- Jack the Ripper - Elizabeth Stride
- The 4th victim. The body of Elizabeth Stride was found behind a working mans club at 40 Henriques Street on the 30 September 1888. Her husband and children had shortly before died in the Princess ALica disaster.
- Jacob Street - Slums
- This area was one of the worst slums in 19 century London. Cholera was common. In Dickens Oliver Twist this is the area where Bill Sykes dies.
- John Snow
- A really nice pub, not messed about
with and the water is clean. The pub is named after the
local doctor who had the nearby well closed in a cholera
epidemic and proved how the disease is spread.
Broadwick
street
- Kings Cross Tube Station Fire - Disaster
- On the 19 November 1987 a fire broke out in the tube station, killing 30 and injuring many many more.
- Leper Hospital
- A 12 century leper hospital stood on the site of the current Church of St Giles in the Field. St Giles was the patron saint of outcasts.
- Leper Hospital
- This was the site of a leper hospital, until Henry 8 acquired the land an built St Jamess Palace.
- Liverpool Street Station - Plague Graveyard
- One of the Plague pits
- London Bridge - Disaster
- In 1212 fire broke out at both ends and 3,000 people died.
- London Necropolis Railway
- Due to over full cemeteries, high death rate caused by Cholera and other illnesses, London almost ran out of burial space. One solution was the Necropolis Railway. This is the site of the London station of the Necropolis railway. From here the bodies in there coffins and the mourners would be transported to the cemetery in Woking.
- Marchioness - Disaster
- On the 20 August 1989 a disco boat the Marchioness, with over 200 on board collided with the 2,000 ton dredger Bowbell. 57 people died.
- Newgate stamped - Disaster
- In 1802, during a hanging in Newgate, 40,000 people stampeded leaving hundreds dead.
- Plague
- The 1665 Great Plague began in the parish od St Giles
- Plague Pit - Royal Mint
- This is the site of a plague burial ground, it was 70 wide and 130 meter long.
- Plague Pit - Tothill Fields
- Site of the plague pit
- Tower Hill - Disaster
- During the execution of Lord Lovat in 1747 a stand collapsed and 12 spectators died.
- Unconsecrated Graveyard
- This is the site of a former unconsecrated graveyard for the area prostitutes. In order to work in this area a licence had to be bought from the local Bishop.
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