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Bosley
Bosley is a village and civil parish in Cheshire, England. At the 2001 census, it had a population of 406. The village is on the A523 road near to where it intersects the A54, about six miles south of Macclesfield. It is the site of Bosley Reservoir. The Macclesfield Canal runs through the parish. All its locks are in this section, including the noted Bosley Lock Flight.
Buncefield fire
conflagration, resulting from explosions at the Hertfordshire Oil Storage Terminal on 11 December 2005
Steam Horse locomotive
Early British locomotive (1813-1815)
RAF Fauld explosion
Accidental, very large 1944 explosion of wartime weaponry in England.
HMS Sidon
1944 S-class submarine
Ronan Point
22-storey tower block in Canning Town in the London Borough of Newham, which partly collapsed on 16 May 1968
Flixborough disaster
1974 industrial accident in England
Didcot power stations
combined coal and oil power plant and natural-gas power plant in Oxfordshire, England, UK