DRYING ROOM FIRE
FREEZING WORKERS’ CLOTtiES DAMAGED. [Per Press Association] HASTINGS, February 4. A fire caused £2OO damage in the drying and locker looms at the lomoana Freezing Works, near Hastings, to-dav. It has been suggested that the outbreak might have been the work of an incendiatj. Police investigations, however, have led to th e conclusion that the fire started from matches ied m th e clothes of a worker in the dicing room. Steam pipes circulate in this room, and great heat is geneia ec when the clothes and other goal M being dried.' The lire extensively damaged the clothing of ninety men.
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Grey River Argus, 5 February 1941, Page 10
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