A Smell Of Hot Wood.
For some weeks solicitors and staff in the century-old library of the Law Society in Chanc<*ry-lane, E.C., smelled heated wood. They did not know that carbonisation behind the great, open fireplace was eating into oak panelling behind the bookshelves, with only a spark needed to set it ablaze. Then the spark came, and before the blaze was put out: 4,000 old law books—many, of them irreplaceable—were destroyed;' One end of the library was damaged; Damage estimated at £35,000 was caused. The lost works of reference included books on English law dating from the 17th century.
Said Mr A. J. Darby, assistant librarian: “It is impossible to put a true value on them, so many were irreplaceable.”
An architect will be called in to examine the woodwork around the library’s other fireplace.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 5, 29 June 1949, Page 4
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