REGALIA NEARLY BURNED
Less than 100 years ago the whole of the roval regalia and Crown jewels had a narrow escape from being destroyed by (ire (says the Manchester Guardian). On October 30, 1841, an overheated flue started a (Ire in the Bowyer Tower at the Tower of London, and the flames spread to the Armoury which was completely destroyed A policeman named Pierce braving smoke and heat, mounted the stairs to the cage in which the regalia and jewels were kept, broke through the cage by strokes with an iron bar. and one by one handed the precious articles out. Not one was damaged and, it may be added, since the present value of the contents of the cage is reckoned at £5.000,000 not one was stolen, but how near they were to destruction is shown by the fact that the cloth in which some of them were wrapped was charred.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23200, 26 May 1937, Page 10
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152REGALIA NEARLY BURNED Otago Daily Times, Issue 23200, 26 May 1937, Page 10
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