MPX5099252: Flats Crash at Plaistow: Part of a 23-storey block of flats, collapsed into the street at Butcher's Road, Plaistow, today about 6am. About 80 people were feared to be trapped and early reports said that at least six people were dead. One eye-witness said that there appeared to be an explosion, then a segment of the block collapsed into the road, May 1968 / Bridgeman Images