BRITISH HEAT WAVE
FOLLOWED BY STORMS. LONDON. July 21. It can now be revealed that a heat wave in Britain lastinu a month ended abruntly on July 12, with violent storms throughout the conntrv. Jhe worst hit areas weie London, the Home 1 Counties, and Wales, where severa’ inches of rain fell in a tow minutes. Roads became impassably trains were held up. houses damaged telephones nut out of act on, and low-ivine - village's flooded. Lightning killed two men and one wrL, A six-months-old kov was drowned in a London basement L'ghtnimr struck a north London factory felling the and roof. Two hundred firemen fought the lire which followed
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Grey River Argus, 23 July 1941, Page 10
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