![]() ![]() Walthamstow - Selborne Walk Shopping Centre
A MASSIVE fire swept through the shopping centre in the early hours one morning in July 2004
Around 100 firefighters tackled the blaze
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![]() Belvedere
stolen by joyriders and then torched
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![]() Whitechapel
Inside burnt out transit van
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![]() Wapping
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![]() Stratford
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![]() Whitechapel (Commercial Rd)
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![]() Hackney
The centre of Hackney was brought to a standstill and surrounding roads were shut for days
pic by Ruth Miller
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Hammersmith Fire station
Disused and awaiting redevelopment
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Old Kent Road Fire Station
Built in 1903 and replaced an 1868 station on the same site.Disused as a fire station since 1971 and now used as a second hand shop (the largest antique fireplace showroom in the world)
Note the fire station dummy in the window.
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North Finchley - Waitrose Supermarket burning down
(these 2 pics sent in by Donald)
This arson was described by firefighters as the worst blaze in recent memory in the borough. The flames
spread quickly, destroying three quarters of the shop floor, and took 120 firefighters 12 hours to
extinguish using 20 fire engines.
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![]() Flats in Popular overlooking Canary Wharf
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![]() Shadwell
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![]() Burnt car booby trapped for fire crews
with gas cylinders
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![]() Victorian houses somewhere in the East End....
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![]() Poplar
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![]() Bow
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![]() Bermondsey
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![]() Limehouse
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![]() Limehouse - some of you will recognise The Albion from the "Pubs" section
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![]() Paddington
Twenty fire engines rushed to the scene and 100 firefighters fought with the blaze.There was traffic chaos as roads were closed and buses were diverted.
Three firefighters were taken to hospital with heat exhaustion.
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![]() Limehouse
Tyre yard
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![]() Bow
Underground garages
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