puts the blame squarely on the "negligence of the steeple-keeper". There you can see the exact cost of the repairs to each element destroyed by the fire and the name of the firm that provided the repairs or replacement.
No one died so our category of Tragedy is perhaps overdoing it.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Christ Church Spitalfields - fire
Did they point out that the fire happened on Ash Wednesday because they saw t...
Traitors’ heads used to be displayed on spikes on London Bridge, at the Stone Gateway on the south bank. This merry London ritual began in about 1300 and continued until about 1660. The lofty hea...
On 23 January 1958, a fire broke out in the basement of Union Cold Storage Co at the Smithfield Poultry Market. The fire spread throughout the maze of basements under the market and burned for thre...
Elizabeth "Long Liz" Stride is believed to have been the third victim of the unidentified serial killer known as Jack the Ripper. Born Elizabeth Gustafsdotter near Gothenburg in Sweden. She was on...
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