Fox House Fire

Nick and Angela Stone live in neighbouring Buxton House. They sent me the following – Nick wrote the words and Angela took the pictures.

The fire started before 7.00 PM on Wednesday, 10th September. The first call to emergency services was made at 7.08 PM.

This is what we saw when we stepped out of Buxton House at around 7.30 to see what was going on. At the time, only the one flat was on fire, in the middle of the top floor.

Within an hour the fire had spread to the roof and into other flats.

An hour later the blaze had almost reached the end of the top floor.

Firemen, taking a break, while others get ready to go into the building.

I don’t remember the flames turning blue, and this may be just the way the photo came out, but the last flats to burn down were near the gas pipe. The crowd – some fifty people – were moved back shortly after this. At one point we heard small explosions as the gas canisters in people’s freezers blew up.

The following morning, the fire brigade were still hosing down the embers.

And this is what the front of the building looked like.

The building is now covered in scaffolding and boarded up.

Nick & Angela, thanks for that story. Please do keep us updated if anything else dramatic happens in Maysoule Road area.

I have always promised to send just the one newsletter every month. I made an exception for the August riots in 2011. For the second time, we have an issue worth a special edition – the Fox House fire.

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Labour Councillor for Latchmere Ward 1972-2022, now Battersea Park Ward, London Borough of Wandsworth Ever hopeful Spurs supporter; Lane visit to the Lane, 1948 Olympics. Why don't they simply call the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, The Lane? Once understood IT but no longer

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