Quayside cranes after the Silvertown Explosion 1917 Christmas Britain was 'the Mother Country'

Britain was 'the Mother Country'

A Perspective View of Covent Garden

This celebration of London's diverse immigrant communities is timely in the light of the societal fault lines exposed by the Covid-19 pandemic and Brexit

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Taking tea at the White Conduit House

Quayside cranes after the Silvertown Explosion 1917 Christmas Britain was 'the Mother Country'Quayside cranes after the Silvertown Explosion. On 19 January 1917, a massive explosion occurred in Silvertown, south of the Royal Victoria Dock. In Messrs Brunner, Mond and Company's munitions works, 50 tons of T. N. T. blew up, killing 73 people and damaging up to 70,000 buildings, including some at the dock. The noise of the blast could be heard as far away as Southampton and Norwich. Fireboats fought to control the flames, which consumed the Royal