At approximately 5:45am on Thursday 16th May 1968, Ivy Hodge lit ... and cause collapse. In 1984, Newham ran a test on the then-unoccupied Ronan Point. They set a fire in a flat to see how serious ...

At 5.45am on May 16 1968, a cake decorator called Ivy Hodge put ... cooker blew out the walls to her flat and triggered the progressive collapse of one corner of the 22-storey Ronan Point tower block ...

This occurred in 1968 in Canning Town, east London, when a kitchen stove explosion at the newly constructed Ronan Point caused one side of the building to collapse, killing four people. Had the ...

Originally the plan was to strengthen and refurbish the blocks, however a detailed report by engineer Arup subsequently revealed the buildings were at risk of disproportionate collapse ... 1968 and ...

Ronan Point following the building collapse, 1968. RIBA Collections Sam Webb recounted these events in a 1988 lecture at the RIBA on the Ronan Point disaster and the “people in high places” at its ...

At approximately 5:45am on Thursday 16th May 1968, Ivy Hodge lit ... and cause collapse. In 1984, Newham ran a test on the then-unoccupied Ronan Point. They set a fire in a flat to see how serious ...