BLAZE IN LONDON
SPREADS FROM MARKET TO ELECTRIC CABLES.
TWO BIG RAILWAY STATIONS
PARALYSED.
(Independent Cable Service.) LONDON, July 20.
Two of London’s biggest stations. Charing Cross and London Bridge, were paralysed last evening when flames from a fire which destroyed half the borough market spread to the Southern Railways' main electric cables near London Bridge. Cracks were later discovered in the brickwork of the bridge. A thousand passengers were stranded between 11 p.m. and 12.35 a.m.. when the current was restored. The flames at one stage threatened Southwark Cathedral. Three hundred firemen fought the outbreak.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 July 1939, Page 7
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