BIG FIRE AT WAPPING
WAREHOUSE ABLAZE THIRTY-FIVE MACHINES ENCASED (British Official Wifeless.) • Press Association—By Telegraph —Copyright ■ RUGBY, September 25. A spectacular fire, fortunately involving no loss of life, broke out at the Colonial wharf at Wapping, and soon after hundreds of firemen with 35 engines and two firefloats were fighting the blaze. The Colonial whw’f is the largest in this reach of the river, and the floors where the fire is located house rubber, tea, and Oriental products. Traffic was suspended in High street, Wapping, and the neighbouring dockside streets, and later police measures had to be taken to push back the crowds of spectators, as an enormous crane on top of the building threatened to collapse. Reinforcements from fire brigade districts further afield arrived, but the fire has not yet been quelled.
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Evening Star, Issue 22144, 26 September 1935, Page 10
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133BIG FIRE AT WAPPING Evening Star, Issue 22144, 26 September 1935, Page 10
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