On the night of November 30, 1936, thousands of London residents ... The iconic Crystal Palace was aflame. The inferno was witnessed “by more people than any previous fire in Britain,” a ...

Just like the Great Fire nearly 300 years before, the Blitz during World War II totally decimated ... Lambeth Palace and the House of Commons were all hit. Between September and November, almost ...

A fire at Buckingham Palace on the eve of the Queen's Golden Jubilee weekend celebrations was caused by an electric heater brought in to tackle dry rot, emergency services said today. The blaze ...

A BBC reporter describes fires out of control in central London. The main targets for air raids outside London were Liverpool, Birmingham, Plymouth, Bristol, Glasgow, Southampton, Coventry ...

I can see practically the whole of London spread round me…the whole of the skyline to the south lit up with a ruddy glow…the flames are leaping up in the air now…the dome of St Paul's ...

In may 2022, two undetonated bombs from WW2 were discovered in Poppy Giles’s* southeast London back garden. “I had been living over explosives for ten years,” Giles reveals, “It was a ...