London beer flood
The London Beer Flood occurred on October 17, 1814 in the parish of St. Giles , London , England . At the Meux and Company Brewery on Tottenham Court Road, a keg filled with over 135,000 Imperial gallons (610,000 L) of beer burst, causing more kegs to burst in the building. There was a domino effect . As a result, more than 323,000 imperial gallons (1,470,000 liters) of beer poured into the streets. The wave of beer destroyed two houses and burst the wall of the Tavistock Arms pub. The pub's teenage clerk , Eleanor Cooper, was buried under the rubble and within minutes, George Street and New Street were also inundated with beer. A mother and her daughter also died in the surrounding streets.
history
The brewery was in the middle of the poor houses and tenements of the St. Giles slum , where entire families lived in basements that quickly filled with beer. At least eight cases of people drowned in the flood or died from injuries have become known.
The brewery was demolished in 1922. Today the Dominion Theater is located on part of the grounds of the former brewery. In 2012, “Holborn Whippet”, a local tavern, began to commemorate this event with a specially brewed barrel porter .
Known deaths
| Surname | Age |
|---|---|
| Ann Saville | 53 |
| Eleanor Cooper | 15-16 |
| Hannah Bamfield | 4th |
| Catherine Butler | 63 |
| Elizabeth Smith | 27 |
| Mary Mulvey | 30th |
| Thomas Mulvey | 3 |
| Sean Duggins | 29 |
Web links
- Alan Bellows: The Amber Tide on Damninteresting.com (Sep 28, 2005)
- Barbara Mikkelson: A Brew to a Kill on Snopes.com
- The London Beer Flood of 1814 on BBC
Individual evidence
- ^ The Oxford Companion to Beer . S. 48 .
- ↑ a b Michael I. Greenberg: Disaster! A Compendium of Terrorist, Natural, and Man-made Catastrophes . Jones & Bartlett Publishers, ISBN 0-7637-3989-8 , pp. 156 ( books.google.com ).
- ^ Nicholas Rennison: The Book of Lists: London . Canongate Books Ltd, Edinburgh 2006, ISBN 1-84195-676-7 .
- ↑ London Beer Flood ( Memento January 17, 2006 on the Internet Archive ) on Expages.com
- ^ The London Beer Flood of 1814
- ^ Page no longer available , search in web archives: In: The Times (London) of October 19, 1814