ANCIENT FARMHOUSE BURNED.
FAMILY’S NARROW ESCAPE. When a farmer named William Tucker awoke the other day to find flames entering a bedroom at his farm in the village of Lankey, in North Devon, he, his wife, and eigbt-month-old baby, and other members of the family were only just in time to escape with their lives- They managed to run out in their night clothes. The Barnstaple Fire Brigade were summoned, but when they arrived the building, which had a thatched roof, had collapsed. With buckets of water from a duck-pond, the firemen prevented the flames spreading to other outbuildings and the dairy. The house was built in 1644. and the outbreak is attributed to an old beam in the kitchen chimney catching fire.
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Putaruru Press, Volume VI, Issue 232, 12 April 1928, Page 1
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123ANCIENT FARMHOUSE BURNED. Putaruru Press, Volume VI, Issue 232, 12 April 1928, Page 1
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