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Street, died when she was buried under the brewery's collapsed wall while washing pots in the pub's yard. Another child, Sarah Bates, was found dead in another house in New Street. The land around the building was low-lying and flat. With insufficient drainage, the beer flowed into cellars, many of which were inhabited, and people were forced to climb on furniture to avoid drowning.
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the vats failed three or four times a year, but without any previous problems. Accounts were also heard from Richard Hawse—the landlord of the Tavistock Arms, whose barmaid had been killed in the accident—and several others. The jury returned a verdict that the eight had lost their lives "casually, accidentally and by misfortune".
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spectators came to view the scene. The mourners killed in the cellar were given their own wake at The Ship public house in Bainbridge Street. The other bodies were laid out in a nearby yard by their families; the public came to see them and donated money for their funerals. Collections were taken up more widely for the families.
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a few days later. The brewing historian Martyn Cornell states that newspapers of the time made no reference to the revelry, or of the later death; instead, the newspapers reported that the crowds were well-behaved. Cornell points out that the popular press of the time did not like the immigrant Irish
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ten-month-old porter. As the bands slipped off the vats two or three times a year, Crick was unconcerned. He told his supervisor about the problem, but was told "that no harm whatever would ensue". Crick was told to write a note to Mr Young, one of the partners of the brewery, to have it fixed later.
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At around 4:30 in the afternoon of 17 October 1814, George Crick, Meux's storehouse clerk, saw that one of the 700-pound (320 kg) iron bands around a vat had slipped. The 22-foot (6.7 m) tall vessel was filled to within four inches (ten centimetres) of the top with 3,555 imperial barrels of
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Hodgson took the jurors to the scene of the events, and they viewed the brewery and bodies before evidence was taken from witnesses. The first witness was George Crick, who had seen the event happen in full; his brother was one of the men who had been injured at the brewery. Crick said that hoops on
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A wave of porter some 15 feet (4.6 m) high swept into New Street, where it destroyed two houses and badly damaged two others. In one of the houses a four-year-old girl, Hannah Bamfield, was having tea with her mother and another child. The wave of beer swept the mother and the second child into
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The area surrounding the rear of the brewery showed a "scene of desolation presents a most awful and terrific appearance, equal to that which fire or earthquake may be supposed to occasion". Watchmen at the brewery charged people to view the remains of the destroyed beer vats, and several hundred
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was being held by an Irish family for a two-year-old boy; Anne Saville, the boy's mother, and four other mourners (Mary Mulvey and her three-year-old son, Elizabeth Smith and Catherine Butler) were killed. Eleanor Cooper, a 14-year-old servant of the publican of the Tavistock Arms in Great Russell
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of porter were destroyed, and their contents added to the flood. Between 128,000 and 323,000 imperial gallons were released. The force of the liquid destroyed the rear wall of the brewery; it was 25 feet (7.6 m) high and two and a half bricks thick. Some of the bricks from the back wall were
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Henry Meux emulated his father's large vat, and constructed a wooden vessel 22 feet (6.7 m) tall and capable of holding 18,000 imperial barrels. Eighty long tons (eighty-one metric tons) of iron hoops were used to strengthen the vat. Meux brewed only
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An hour after the hoop fell off, Crick was standing on a platform thirty feet (9.1 m) from the vat, holding the note to Mr Young, when the vessel, with no indication, burst. The force of the liquid's release knocked the
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burst. The escaping liquid dislodged the valve of another vessel and destroyed several large barrels: between 128,000 and 323,000 imperial gallons (580,000–1,470,000 L; 154,000–388,000 US gal) of beer were released in total.
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was later built on the site. Meux & Co went into liquidation in 1961. As a result of the accident, large wooden tanks were phased out across the brewing industry and replaced with lined concrete vessels.
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returned a verdict that the eight had lost their lives "casually, accidentally and by misfortune". The brewery was nearly bankrupted by the event; it avoided collapse after a rebate from
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All those in the brewery survived, although three workmen had to be rescued from the rubble; the superintendent and one of the workers were taken to
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New Street was demolished as part of redevelopment in the twentieth century; Dyott Street still runs along approximately the same course.
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on the lost beer. The brewing industry gradually stopped using large wooden vats after the accident. The brewery moved in 1921, and the
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The Horse Shoe Brewery went back into business soon afterwards, but closed in 1921 when Meux moved their production to the
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Kirkland, Richard (Spring 2012). "Reading the Rookery: The Social Meaning of an Irish Slum in Nineteenth-Century London".
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The resulting wave of porter destroyed the back wall of the brewery and swept into an area of slum dwellings known as the
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128,000 to 323,000 imperial gallons equates to 580,000–1,470,000 L; 1,020,000–2,580,000 imp pt; 154,000–388,000 US gal.
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Both Mrs Bamfield and the second child spent time in hospital in a critical condition, but later recovered.
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population that lived in St Giles, so if there had been any misbehaviour, it would have been reported.
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Brinch Kissmeyer, Anders; Garrett, Oliver (2012). "Fermentation vessels". In Garrett, Oliver (ed.).
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In the early nineteenth century the Meux Brewery was one of the two largest in London, along with
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Stories later arose of hundreds of people collecting the beer, mass drunkenness and a death from
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102,493 imperial barrels equates to 16,774,000 L; 3,690,000 imp gal; 4,431,000 US gal.
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is now where the brewery used to stand. Meux & Co went into liquidation in 1961.
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20,000 imperial barrels equates to 3,300,000 L; 720,000 imp gal; 860,000 US gal.
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18,000 imperial barrels equates to 2,900,000 L; 650,000 imp gal; 780,000 US gal
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The Gentleman's Magazine: And Historical Chronicle. From July To December 1814
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Dornbusch, Horst; Garrett, Oliver (2012). "Porter". In Garrett, Oliver (ed.).
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3,555 imperial barrels equates to 581,800 L; 128,000 imp gal; 153,700 US gal.
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from a neighbouring vat, which also began discharging its contents; several
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Close-up, showing the location of New Street, which was a cul-de-sac by 1814
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of the St Giles parish on 19 October 1814; George Hodgson, the coroner for
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knocked upwards, and fell onto the roofs of the houses in the nearby
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The Dictionary of Chronology, Or Historical and Statistical Register
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Sources disagree on the amount of beer released. Figures include:
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the street; Hannah was killed. In the second destroyed house, a
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being held by an Irish family for a two-year-old boy. The
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The Rookeries of London: Past, Present and Prospective
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The Rookeries of London: Past, Present and Prospective
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The Horse Shoe Brewery (centre), at the junction of
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that joined on to Dyott Street; this was within the
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Etching of brewery working; two drays of horses pull deliveries away from the building.
Horse Shoe Brewery
porter
St Giles
rookery
wake
coroner's
inquest
HM Excise
Dominion Theatre
Street scene showing the poor of the rookery sitting at the edge of the road
Whitbread
Sir Henry Meux
Horse Shoe Brewery
Tottenham Court Road
Oxford Street
Griffin Brewery
Clerkenwell Road
porter
cul-de-sac
St Giles
rookery
Westminster St James
William Hogarth
Gin Lane
Map of central London
Tottenham Court Road
Oxford Street
Close-up of the same map, showing the immediate vicinity of the brewery
stopcock

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