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My copy of Barnard with annonations

30 years ago ..

By Andre Burbidge · April 13, 2021 · Uncategorised · No comments

I finished washing up my side plate, spoon and cereal bowl and replaced them carefully in “my” cupboard in the shared kitchen. I went down the corridor to my bedsit room, the front downstairs room, shielded from the street by net curtains, and collected my bag. It was a Wednesday…

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Silvertown after the explosion, 1917

100th Anniversary of the Silvertown Explosion

By · January 19, 2017 · Archives · No comments

Today marks the 100th anniversary of the Silvetown Explosion, where, on the evening of January 19th 1917, 50 tonnes of trinitrotoluene exploded after efforts to extinguish a fire in one of the factory melt pots failed. The explosion killed 73 people, injured more than 400 and instantly destroyed an estimated…

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