The London Beer Flood: The Day a Slum Drowned in Beer
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The London Beer Flood: The Day a Slum Drowned in Beer
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On an October afternoon in eighteen fourteen, the people of one of London's poorest slums heard a sound like cannon fire — and then a fifteen-foot wave of beer came roaring through their streets, smashing down walls and flooding the cellars they lived in. Eight people drowned, in the dark, in beer.
This episode tells the strange and genuinely tragic story of the London Beer Flood: the giant brewery vats, the loose iron hoop no one took seriously, the wall of porter that swept through the St Giles rookery — and how a disaster that sounds almost comical fell hardest on the people who could least afford it, then got written off in court as an "act of God."
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