Editing Southall (section)

====Accidents and racial tensions====
On 2 September 1958 at 7:10&nbsp;am, a pilot of a [[Vickers VC.1 Viking]] V624 (G-AIJE), which had just taken off from Heathrow Airport, reported that he had engine trouble. Some minutes later it [[1958 London Vickers Viking accident|crashed into a row of houses in Kelvin Gardens]]. It was on a cargo flight carrying aero engines to [[Tel Aviv]] and carried no passengers; however, the three crew members and four people on the ground were killed. One of the surviving occupants, 14-year-old Brian Gibbons, was later awarded the [[George Medal]] for bravery for saving his nephew from the subsequent fires,<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=41688 |date=17 April 1959 |page=2617 }}</ref> as well as the [[Carnegie Medal (literary award)|Carnegie Award]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=35877 |title=Brave Boy Rewarded Aka Carnegie Award To Brian Gibbons – British Pathé |publisher=Britishpathe.com |date=12 March 2014 |access-date=29 July 2015 |archive-date=11 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110611092930/http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=35877 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The accident was due to poor maintenance, and caused the company, Independent Air Travel, to fail in October 1959.<ref>''[[Reach plc|Ealing Gazette]]'' (19 October 2007) Seven Killed as A Viking plane smashes houses.</ref>

The 1970s saw racial tensions in the area; in 1976 Sikh teenager Gurdip Singh Chaggar was killed in a racist attack.<ref>{{cite book |title=Uprising! Police, the People and the Riots in Britain's Cities |publisher=[[Pan Books]] |year=1982 |isbn=0330268457 |first1=Martin |last1=Kettle |first2=Lucy |last2=Hodges |page=60,156}}</ref> On 23 April 1979, [[Blair Peach]], a teacher and [[anti-racism|anti-racist]] activist, was killed after being knocked unconscious during a protest against the [[British National Front|National Front]] (NF).<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/23/newsid_2523000/2523959.stm |title=BBC On This Day &#124; 23 &#124; 1979: Teacher dies in Southall race riots |work=BBC News |date=23 April 1979 |access-date=29 July 2015 |archive-date=10 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200810061004/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/23/newsid_2523000/2523959.stm |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>Marshall, George (1991). Spirit of '69 – A Skinhead Bible. Dunoon, Scotland: S.T. Publishing. {{ISBN|1-898927-10-3}}. p.107</ref> Another demonstrator, [[Misty in Roots|Clarence Baker]] – a singer of the reggae band [[Misty in Roots]], remained in a coma for five months.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/art.php?id=17687 |title=Blair Peach: killed by police |newspaper=Socialist Worker (Britain) |publisher=Socialistworker.co.uk |access-date=29 July 2015 |archive-date=24 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924103335/http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/art.php?id=17687 |url-status=dead }}</ref> More than 40 others – including 21 police – were injured, and 300 were arrested.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8119212.stm |title=Blair Peach: A 30-year campaign |work=BBC News |date=25 June 2009 |access-date=29 July 2015 |archive-date=23 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230423060449/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8119212.stm |url-status=live }}</ref>

On 4 July 1981, a [[race riot]] was sparked at the Hambrough Tavern on the Broadway.<ref name=riot>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=932&dat=19810705&id=t1YLAAAAIBAJ&pg=6426,404910 |title=Race riot strikes London |date=5 July 1981 |agency=Associated Press |access-date=12 January 2010 |archive-date=23 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230423060453/https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=932&dat=19810705&id=t1YLAAAAIBAJ&pg=6426,404910 |url-status=live }}</ref> Local Asian youths mistakenly believed that a concert featuring the [[Oi!]] bands [[The Business (band)|The Business]], The Last Resort and [[The 4-Skins]] was a [[white nationalism|white power]] event.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.garry-bushell.co.uk/oi/index.asp |title=Oi! – The Truth |last=Bushell |first=Garry |year=2001 |work=Garry Bushell Uncensored |access-date=12 January 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091216081325/http://www.garry-bushell.co.uk/oi/index.asp |archive-date=16 December 2009}}</ref> Additionally, the venue had recently been sued for barring non-white customers, and local youths had heard that [[skinhead]]s arriving for the concert had harassed other youths and women.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Baumann |first=Gerd |title=Contesting culture: discourses of identity in multi-ethnic London |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=1996 |series=Volume 100 of Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology |isbn=0-521-55554-X |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r6o4xjpmOIgC&pg=PA59}}</ref> More than 200 skinheads had travelled by bus from East London, and a few of them smashed shop windows,<ref>{{Cite book |last=Axel |first=Brian Keith |title=The nation's tortured body: violence, representation, and the formation of a Sikh "Diaspora" |publisher=Duke University Press |year=2001 |isbn=0-8223-2615-9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Gj8yJsixw8QC&pg=PA177}}</ref>{{Page needed|date=September 2010}} wrote NF slogans around the area,<ref>Robb, John (2006). Punk Rock: An Oral History (London: Elbury Press). {{ISBN|0-09-190511-7}}</ref> and shouted [[neo-Nazism|neo-Nazi]] slogans{{citation needed|date=April 2020}} while using bricks and clubs to attack Asian youths who had gathered in opposition to the gig. This was one of several high-profile riots in Britain that year. Although some of the skinheads were NF or [[British Movement]] supporters, among the 500 or so concert-goers were also left-wing skinheads, black skinheads, [[punk subculture|punk rockers]], [[rockabilly|rockabillies]] and non-affiliated youths.<ref>Marshall, George (1991). Spirit of '69 – A Skinhead Bible. Dunoon, Scotland: S.T. Publishing. {{ISBN|1-898927-10-3}}. pp.107–8</ref> Some of the approximately 400 Asians threw [[Molotov cocktail|petrol bombs]] and other objects, and five hours of rioting left 120 people injured – including 60 police officers – and the tavern burnt down.<ref name=riot/><ref>Marshall, George (1991). Spirit of '69 – A Skinhead Bible. Dunoon, Scotland: S.T. Publishing. {{ISBN|1-898927-10-3}}. pp.106 & 110</ref>

The [[Southall rail crash]] occurred on 19 September 1997 when a [[First Great Western]] mainline high speed express train from [[Swansea railway station|Swansea]] to [[Paddington railway station|London Paddington]] ran a red signal, when the driver's attention was distracted, and it collided with a [[goods train]] just outside Southall railway station. Seven people died and 139 were injured.