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Four Storey Block Destroyed by Fire

#1 by Voltman , Mon Sep 09, 2019 9:48 am

This block was built on an old sewage treatment works.

I know that land in Cole Hall Lane, which was a sewage farm until 1970, was always catching fire in the seventies due to flammable gasses being released from the soil.

"Worcester Park fire: Blaze engulfs four-storey London block of flats"

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