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Month: May 2019

Great Fire at Yeovil

Great Fire at Yeovil

From a random selection of newspaper articles stretching from 1848 to 1944 fires in gloving factories seem to have been a recurrent hazard. The following taken from the Western Gazette is an abridged account of one disastrous one which occurred on 27th March 1908. GREAT FIRE AT YEOVIL £4,000 DAMAGE AT A GLOVE FACTORY DRESSING YARD BURNT OUT A fire broke out in the dressing yard behind the glove factory of Mr G. H. Gould, in Vicarage Street, Yeovil about…

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