Bloody London: Shocking Tales from London’s Gruesome Past and Present by McHugh Declan

Author:McHugh, Declan [McHugh, Declan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781780591230
Publisher: Crimson Publishing
Published: 2012-04-19T23:00:00+00:00

’It is perfectly clear that the management at Silvertown did not pay sufficient attention to the explosion risk attached to the handling of the TNT.’

Yet it was not a war incident that triggered the disaster since London was free from air raids that day.

Could it have been sabotage? Perhaps it was fire that caused the explosion? The official report came up with no definitive answer but admitted that sabotage ‘could not be disregarded’.

The official enquiry was definite about one thing – there should have been no TNT plant at that location. The government suppressed the report for over 30 years …

In the end the government paid out the equivalent of £40 million (in today’s money) for compensation claims, but 73 people were dead and a large area devestated, and no compensation could cover that terrible fact.

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