MANOR FIRE ESCAPED
KNOTTED SHEETS USED RESCUE OF M.P.'S WIFE SNOW DELAYS BRIGADE (Elee. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. Dec. 23, 3 p.m.) LONDON, Dec. 22.
Lady Anderson, the wife of Sir Alan Anderson, the Conservative member of the House of Commons for the City of London, escaped from a fire at Notgrove Manor in the Cotswolds by lowering herself down from a window ivith knoted sheets.
A maid ran through the snowstorm and gave the alarm. The fire engine was three times stuck in snowdrifts. The house, which for centuries has been the home of the descendants , f Dick Whittington, was severely damaged.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19821, 24 December 1938, Page 7
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