https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/02/19/at-clerkenwell-fire-station/firemen-victoria-dwellings005-1/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Sat, 31 Aug 2013 00:59:50 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/02/19/at-clerkenwell-fire-station/firemen-victoria-dwellings005-1/#comment-161446 Sat, 31 Aug 2013 00:59:50 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Firemen-Victoria-Dwellings005-1.jpg#comment-161446 I was a fireman at Clerkenwell during the sixties. I remember one particular job we had a Victoria Dwellings when a woman who used to have a book stall along Farrington Road was burnt to death in a basement flat. It was one of those jobs that was so hot that the paint ran in rivulets on my helmet and I had to have it repainted.

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