FIRE AT MANOR
BARONET BURNED BY HOT LEAD
WIFE UNABLE TO SAVE JEWELS,
Both Sir Fortescue Flannery, Bart.', and : his wife narrowly esca.ped; serious injury when, fire destroyed a wing of Wethersfield- Manor, • thei r beautiful home 'near‘ Braintree,, Essex,- on a recent Saturday night. When the alarm v;a fi given Lady Flannery rushed into her -bed-room to recover her jewellery, but was beaten back by the flames. The roof crashed in. A shower of molten lead fell on 'Sij- Fortscue as he -• was--directing fire: fighting operations. He -was slightly burned on the 'hand and foot;-i Mr Augustine Courtauld, the youngArctic explorer, who was rescued from the Greenland Ice Cap about 18 months age, helped the firemen and organised' volunteer assistance. '• (Sir Fortescue, who -is 81', - said: - ! My wife and I were alone in the house when-,the fire started—apparently in the roof over a. bedroom. ‘(foe saw sparks falling from the ceiling of the drawing room, and the fire-alarm hell at the manor was -rung to iwarn the village, folk. They responded magnificently.” '
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Hokitika Guardian, 26 July 1933, Page 3
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