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This website is dedicated to
the memory of the students, faculty, and family of London High School taken from
us on March 18, 1937.
We will be your source of
news from each alumni class. We will provide you with an easy access to coming
events, articles of interest, and a platform for communication to former
classmates and faculty.
The website will be continually updated, keeping the information current. Check
with us often.
Be an active contributor to our website.
Share your news, thoughts,
and pictures with us.
Let us know what you want to see on these pages.
New London, Texas, was known as the richest independent school district in the United States. Due to its oil wealth, the district was able to
construct a state-of-the-art, for its time, school to house grades K-11.
On March 18, 1937 students prepared for an Inter-scholastic meet in Henderson. Then, at 3:17 p.m., an instructor in the shop class turned on a sanding machine which sparked. In an instant, a good part of the building disintegrated with an explosion that could be heard for miles. Almost 300 students and teachers died in the blast. The spark had ignited accumulated natural gas from a leak in a crawl space beneath the school.
Now, more than 75 years later, the London Museum, across the highway from where the original school was destroyed, keeps alive the memory of much of a generation who died on that terrible day.
This video was produced by Michael Brown Productions of Arlington, TX as a prelude to a feature documentary on the explosion and its aftermath which is planned for
the spring of 2013.
Experience the tragedy and triumph as you step back in time with a visit to the London Museum in New London, Texas.
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