Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Ginin ya kuma zama cibiyar agaji ga al'ummar yankin a lokuta da dama. A ranar 19 ga Janairu, 1917, wani masana'antar kamfanin sinadarai Brunner, Mond & Co a Silvertown ya fashe, ya kashe mutane 69 a wurin, ya jikkata wasu 98 da yawa, 4 daga cikinsu suka mutu daga baya, tare da wasu mutane 1,000 da suka sami raunuka kaɗan. Fashewar Silvertown ta haifar da babbar lalacewa a cikin gundumar, kusan gidaje 70,000 sun lalace, suna korar yawan mazauna. Gidan taron jama'a ya buɗe ƙofofinsa kuma ya ba da abinci, masauki, da tufafi ga waɗanda suka rasa gidajensu. A watan Fabrairun 1953, kogin Thames ya mamaye yankin Canning Town da Custom House, an san shi da Ambaliyar Tekun Arewa na 1953
Ka yi haƙuri. An kiyasta gidaje 1,500 sun lalace; 105 Barking Road ya sake samar da masauki na wucin gadi ga wadanda abin ya shafa.