Talk:Silvertown explosion

Locations
London had a number of different boundaries which rarely coincided. London County Council was set up in 1888, its boundaries enclose what are now the Inner London boroughs, and what was the Inner London Education Authority in the days of the Greater London Council. The Metropolitan Police District was set up by statute. Its area was wider than the old LCC, but it did/does not match the GLC area. The London postal districts covered the LCC and beyond, which included parts of Surrey, Kent, Essex and Middlesex. The London postal districts are numbered in the alphabetical order of the post offices, much of the built-up area of the East End was in the County of Essex, but with a London postal address - Walthamstow (E17) is another example.


 * The outermost boundary of the LCC in the East was the River Lea/Lee. West Ham (and further out East Ham) were County Boroughs of Essex (East Ham since 1915) and official records up to 1965 are held at the Essex Record Office.  Some pedants insist that, since the term East End refers to the East End of London, areas that were outside the London boundaries are not entitled to be termed the East End.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.226.49.232 (talk) 12:29, 19 January 2017 (UTC)

Sulphurous Yellow"
The end of the article mentions a character from "Upstairs Downstairs" as having "her face is covered in a sulfurous yellow residue.". I have not seen the relevant programme, but it is more likely that the skin discolouring is a result of working with TNT than the explosion itself ~ the girls were commonly nicknamed "Canaries" for this reason. -- अनाम गुमनाम  15:28, 19 January 2010 (UTC)

The Canaries was the nickname for the girls whose skin went yellow handling sulphru, but they were nothing to do with this Explosion, they worked at Bryant & Mays Match factory at Bow, north of Silvertown, in an earlier period. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.149.238.55 (talk) 16:52, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

sunshine
I was an apprentice working in Docklands, 1961-1966 and several of the older employees remembered the great explosion. They seemed unanimous that the explosion had been caused by "bright sunshine shining through a window".

This may be folklaw but I thought it worth a mention. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.93.199.154 (talk) 09:32, 6 June 2010 (UTC)

canaries
My late mother worked in a Coventry ordnance factory and mentioned that she turned yellow from working with the explosives. She never mentioned the supposed nickname "canaries" though. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.93.199.154 (talk) 09:39, 6 June 2010 (UTC)

Development
Having remained empty since the explosion, the site is now undergoing redevelopment, I believe this may be part of the Silvertown Quays development but I'm unable to find a news story that confirms this. Mighty Antar (talk) 18:29, 30 July 2014 (UTC)

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should be tagged with related article
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incidents_involving_transport_or_storage_of_ammunition 104.169.41.8 (talk) 15:27, 4 October 2018 (UTC)