#105 - Meux and the Man-Made Tidal Wave (aka the London Beer Flood)

#105 - Meux and the Man-Made Tidal Wave (aka the London Beer Flood)

On Monday 17th October 1814, at 5:30pm, an iron hoop on a vat of Porter beer at the Horseshoe Brewery would slip, it didn't seem like an emergency, but it would unleash a deadly tidal wave which would change Great Russell Street and the residents of The Rookery forever

  • Date: Monday 17th October 1814
  • Location: Meux & Co's Horseshoe Brewery, Tottenham Court Road, Bloomsbury, London, W1
  • Victims: 8 (Eleanor Cooper, Mary Murry/ Mulvey, Thomas Murry, Hannah Banfield, Sarah Bates, Anne Saville, Elizabeth Smith and Catherine Butler)
  • Culprits: 0 (Sir Henry Meux & Charles Young) were found innoncent


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