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The Great Storm of Wind on Friday week: old elms blown down in St. James's Park, 1881. Creator: Unknown.
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The Great Storm of Wind on Friday week: old elms blown down in St. James's Park, 1881. 'The south of England, and especially the country a hundred miles round London, with the metropolitan district itself, seem to have felt its extreme violence; and a vast amount of damage has been done to buildings and plantations, while many persons, in different parts of the country, and a few in London, lost their lives from various injuries...The gale subsided on the Friday afternoon; but its effects were not fully known till Monday, as many lines of telegraph had been interrupted...It seems, indeed, to have been a revolving storm, or cyclone, of vast circumference, having a diameter of not less than two hundred miles, covering nearly the whole of England, and connected with more extensive atmospheric disturbances beyond...The gale was destructive in its effects upon the trees in the Metropolitan Parks. Some were uprooted, and all were nearly stripped of their autumnal foliage...A child four years old was killed in St. James's Park by the fall of a tree...Several persons sustained severe contusions from the flying branches'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.
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HRM25A42_248
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5,2Mo (501,2Ko) / 13,2cm x 9,8cm / 1554 x 1162 (300dpi)