A HUNDRED-YEAR-OLD FIRE
Near Chequers Inn, five miles from Osmotherly, North Yorkshire, where pent is being cut to. meet the fuel shortage, is what is claimed to be the oldest peat fire in the country. Mrs Thompson, mother of the landlord of the inn, soys that the fire has not been out for 70 years to her knowledge, and when she was n little girl people told her that then the fire had already been alight for 100 years. _
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12607, 18 November 1926, Page 3
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79A HUNDRED-YEAR-OLD FIRE New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12607, 18 November 1926, Page 3
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