These footage present a dramatic blaze on the Regent’s Canal engulfing a warehouse – however thriller surrounds once they have been taken or who snapped them.
Thick smoke will be seen to billow throughout the canal from a warehouse in Wharf Place subsequent to Bethnal Green gasworks.
The scene at Wharf Place a while in the Seventies
– Credit: Paul Wood
Emergency crews deal with it on two sides – from Wharf Place and the different aspect of the canal at Andrews Road in London Fields.
They would doubtless have turned up from fire stations resembling Bethnal Green, Bow, Shoreditch, Kingsland, Hackney and Stoke Newington.
A thriller onlooker in all probability took the snaps in the Seventies or 80s. Paul Wood, who was a contract photographer for the native press in the Eighties who has a eager curiosity in archive footage from fire stations, is interesting for the individual to come back ahead.
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“These photographs are an incredible image of instances passed by,” he stated. “They have been handed to a retired fireman final week who served in the space again then. It can be good so as to add the particulars if anybody can recall something about the fire.”
The quiet canal scene right this moment… many years after the warehouse blaze
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A pensioner, who had discovered the photographs at house, dropped them off at Stoke Newington Fire Station on Sunday, March 21.
Anyone who remembers the blaze can e mail Paul at [email protected] or the native press at [email protected].
