Silvertown Explosion - civilian casualties

[Cotswoldhills]

 :)Hello Everyone this is my first post. Thank you to my friend Arranroots for showing me this site and for everyone who has replied. I have been able to post a question on another site which may help me. I'll just keep trying.

[Arranroots]

Well, I wonder who "Cotswoldhills" might be? 

A BIG welcome to Rootschat!! - and not just cos you are my friend.

I told you Rootschatters would do their best for you.

 

[Cotswoldhills]

Just wondering if your friend has tried the Newham local history bulletin board frequented by local residents past and present?  I have seen a number of posts about the Silvertown Explosion http://www.newham.gov.uk/content/Environment/local_history.jsp

Casalguidi

Wow! Thanks for this site reference. I put up a post and got loads of replies. I now know where he is buried and someone sent me extracts from a book with three bits about him in it. He was only 5 years old. So thank you so much.

[Kimi]

Glad you got what you were looking for.  The other site is very helpful and they have so much information.  I use it myself occassionally.

Kimi

[vabbott]

Hi
A colleague of mine has written a book for his grandchildren and it is on line..... google West Silvertownfoundation .org or Stan dyson you will enjoy these i am sure He has a copy of the book which lists the casualties I did have a copy as msome of my family were amongst the casualties
Ronnie

[vabbott]

Hi
If you still are interested in this subject  go onto Google and enter " stan dyson " he lived there and has a couple of sites listed  about the area  and a book he has written  I am sure you will all find them interesting  Give them a look anyway

Ronnie

[kevan]

All,
   Not necessarily about the explosion, but a newish site lists quite a bit of info about Silvertown and the area.
http://historyofstratford.co.uk/Silvertown/Silvertown-index.shtml

  And Canning Town, Stratford, West Ham etc.
Best
Kevan

[Boblima]

Dear Arranroots,

Re the Silvertown explosion, dreadful as it obviously was, it should perhaps be remembered that the factory was Brunner Mondes, making shells, bombs etc., Silvertown as has quite rightly already been noted, was a densely populated area, full of housing, docks, paint factories, soap factories  etc, so what might have been a relatively small incident,  couldn't have happened in a worse place, and I suppose 73 dead could have so easily been 173 dead.

Bob Lovett

[Arranroots]

Hi Bob

Yes, fair comment.

My friend, on whose behalf I originally posted this request, has now joined Rootschat too, so hopefully she will come across your reply.

Kind regards, Arranroots