Two hundred years ago, eight Londoners died in one of the
oddest ways imaginable. Or, to invoke the thoroughly British words of The
Times' news report on the incident, "The neighbourhood of St. Giles's was
thrown into the utmost consternation on Monday night, by one of the most
melancholy accidents we ever remember."
On the evening in question—October 17, 1814—one of the vats
at the Meux and Co. brewery burst, blowing apart the building's timber walls
and sending the equivalent of 3500 barrels of beer cascading onto the streets.
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