FREAK STORM IN ENGLAND
BALLOONS BROUGHT DOWN IN FLAMES lU.P A.- By Electric: Telegraph— Copyriebtl (Received 27th February, 9.55 a.m.) LONDON, 26th February. A solitary lightning flash during a thunderstorm struck a winch, ran up a steel cable, and brought down in flames one of six balloons of the Stanmore barrage The balloon fell on top of a hangar, damaging it. but nobody was injured.' Another balloon was similarly destroyed between Chigwell and Buckhurstshill. Lightning ignited a building being j constructed at Hendon. It was a freak storm, being followed by ten minutes’ darkness and causing temporary floods.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 27 February 1939, Page 7
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