FIRE IN MANOR
4— HOME OF DICK WHITTINGTON’S DESCENDANTS. KNOTTED SHEETS AS FIRE ESCAPE. By Telegra-h—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 12.50 p.m.) LONDON, December 22. Lady Anderson, wife of a member of the House of Commons, Sir Alan And- j erson, escaped from a fire at Notgrove Manor, Cotswold, lowering herself I down from a window with knotted sheets. A maid ran through a snowstorm and gave the alarm. The fire engine three times struck snowdrifts. The house, which for centuries was the home of Dick Whittington’s descendants, was severely damaged.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 December 1938, Page 6
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