FIRES IN LONDON.
Outbreaks At Two Largest Railway Stations. PASSENGERS STRANDED. 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 of the Borough Market, spread to the Southern Railway's 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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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 170, 21 July 1939, Page 7
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94FIRES IN LONDON. Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 170, 21 July 1939, Page 7
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