BANK OF ENGLAND
DAMAGED BY FIRE. FIREMEN’S HARD TASK. (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) LONDON, Dec. 16." ' “Bank of. England afire!” such telephone message sent twenty-five fire engines and over one hundred firemen dashing madly to the Bank of England building. Huge crowds of people assembled and they saw flames shoot high from the ’cabin of an electric crane on the Bank’s roof where rebuilding is in progress. Detachments of the Coldstream Guards were on duty at the bank, and they turned out with fixed bayonets to guard the underneath vaults, in which there is 125 millions sterling in goldIt took the firemen half an hour to master the outbreak, which ocurred 133 feet above the street level in an inaccessible part.' The fiiremen had to be hoisted aloft in cranes to direct the hoses. The damage was considerable, hut it was stated afterwards that, even if the Bank had been burned out, tile vaults would have been safe, as each has a wall of steel, and concrete eight feet thick, with doors leading to them weighing, twelve tons, which can only be operated by an electric device. a
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 December 1931, Page 6
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189BANK OF ENGLAND Hokitika Guardian, 17 December 1931, Page 6
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