Sujet

Remains of the National School at Capel, near Ipswich, struck by lightning, 1854. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Remains of the National School at Capel, near Ipswich, struck by lightning, 1854. '...Capel St. Mary...was visited with a terrific storm, by which three children were killed...the storm burst over-head with awful severity, the rain falling in heavy torrents. In a few minutes the lightning struck the top of the western gable, which was composed of lath and plaster, and descending in a slanting direction to the earth, split the wall open from top to bottom, dashing in the windows...the children lay upon the floor, some apparently lifeless, and others screaming piteously for assistance. To add to the horrors of the scene, the lightning, which had run along the ceiling had ignited the thatch roof...the bodies of the dead were conveyed into an adjacent hovel...[all that remained were] blackened rafters and charred ruins; the only portion of brickwork remaining consisting of a stack of tall chimneys...'. From "Illustrated London News", 1854.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM22B08_221

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

12,6Mo (1,2Mo) / 21,3cm x 14,8cm / 2519 x 1749 (300dpi)

Mots clés

weather storm exterior outdoors building England destruction education stormy chimneys British school chimney damage damaged ruins ruin beam beams disaster century Britain catastrophe newspapers press concept ruined Suffolk B&W aftermath 19th century black & white black and white B W nineteenth century Ipswich The Print Collector Illustrated London News TGN ILN outside lightning newspaper engraving Unknown 19th-century