Tom Macklaw
Welcome to the channel! Think of this as a strange travel/history channel…where I visit lots of interesting places that just happened to have had fascinating/tragic/amazing/awful things happen in them…
You’re here for the beginning as well so who knows where we might end up!
What Derailed this Train? The Hither Green Train Crash 1967
Britain’s Deadliest Avalanche…Happened in Sussex?! | The Lewes Avalanche 1836
First Policeman Killed in Kent | Retracing the Final Steps of PC Israel May 1873
The Train Crash That Brought Down a Bridge | Lewisham 1957
Buried on the Edge | The True Hauntings of Whitby’s Church and Abbey
Uncovering the Lost 'Disneyland' of Victorian England | Rosherville Gardens
The Forgotten Submarine Disaster of 1950 | The Sinking of HMS Truculent
How Three Men Were Lost So Close to Home | Scarborough Lifeboat Disaster 1954
Britain’s Most Unbelievable Lifeboat Rescue | Robin Hood's Bay 1881
How Famous Pranksters Boarded Britain's Flagship | The Dreadnought Hoax
Britain’s Worst River Disaster | The Horrific Sinking of the SS Princess Alice
How a Firefighting Demonstration Went Horribly Wrong | The 1929 Gillingham Fair Disaster
When East London Exploded | The 1917 Silvertown Disaster
The RAF Crash That Wiped Out a Family | Maidstone Hurricane Disaster 1940
How a Day Trip on Loch Lomond Went Horribly Wrong | The Lady of the Lake Disaster
The Ship That Killed Its Builders | The Clyde’s Darkest Day | SS Daphne Disaster
Visiting the Site of One of the Worst Explosions in British History | Faversham Munitions Explosion
This Captain Should Not Have Been in Command | The Sinking of the Earl of Abergavenny
How a German U-Boat Washing Up on a British Beach Had Deadly Consequences | The Story of SM U-118
First Disaster Caught on Camera | How the Launch of a British Battleship Turned Deadly | HMS Albion
How this Decaying Tower Ended Up Abandoned | Finding Grain Tower (Gun Battery)
How 24 Children Lost Their Lives in Seconds | The Chatham Bus Disaster (1951)
How this WW2 Shipwreck Could Explode at Any Moment | Finding SS Richard Montgomery
Finding U-boats in the UK | WW1 German Submarines Marooned in the Medway Estuary
How a Luxury Ocean Liner Disappeared in a Fireball | Finding HMS Princess Irene
Finding a Submarine | WW1 German U-Boat Stranded in the Medway Estuary
How One Tiny Mistake Blew Up a British Battleship | Finding HMS Bulwark
The Dark Theories Behind The Bizarre Death of Edgar Allan Poe
How the Evidence Might Point to Murder | The Mysterious Death of Vincent Van Gogh
Was Anything About this Serial Killer Actually Real? | The Truth About H.H. Holmes