THE BANK OF ENGLAND AFIRE
(Press Assn.-
extensive damage OUTBREAK IN INACCESSABLE SPOT HIGH ABOVE STREET VAULTS NOT END AN GERED
— By Telegraph — Copyright),
Rec. Dec. 16, 11 p.m. LONDON, Wednesday. "The Bank of England is afire." This telephone message was sent to the fire brigades and 25 fire engines and over one hundred firemen rushed madly to the building. Huge crowds assemhled and saw flames shoot high from the cabin of an electric crane on the roof, where re-building is in progress. Detachments of the Coldstream Guards on duty at the Bank turned out with fixed bayonets to guard the underground vaults in which there is £125,000,000, in gold. It took the firemen half an hour to master the outbreak, which occurred 130 feet above the street level in an almost inaccessible spot. The firemen had to be hoisted aloft in cranes to direet the hoses. ' The damage was considerable, but it was stated af terwards that even if the Bank had been burnt out, the vaults would have been safe as each has a wall of steel and concrete eighf feet thick with doors leading to them weighting 12 tons, which can be operated only by an electrical device.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 99, 17 December 1931, Page 5
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201THE BANK OF ENGLAND AFIRE Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 99, 17 December 1931, Page 5
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