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Great Storm of Wind on Friday week: ruins caused by fall of chimney shaft, Charles-Street..., 1881. Creator: Unknown.
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Great Storm of Wind on Friday week: ruins caused by fall of chimney shaft, Charles-Street, Goswell-Road, 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...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...Two or three women and children were killed by falling chimney-pots and tiles. In Charles-street, Goswell-road, part of a tall chimney-shaft, belonging to Mr. J. H. Hancock's india-rubber factory, fell into a building occupied by Mr. Wickes, rag-merchant, where a number of young men and women were employed in sorting rags. Two of them, Henry Nobes and Rose Tyler, each seventeen years of age, were killed, and five were seriously injured'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.
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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector
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HRM25A43_209
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Droits gérés
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5,2Mo (566,5Ko) / 13,2cm x 9,9cm / 1561 x 1175 (300dpi)