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Demolition by gun-cotton of a chimney at North Fleet, 1873. Creator: Unknown.
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Demolition by gun-cotton of a chimney at North Fleet, 1873. Our Illustration shows the demolition...of the tall chimney at North-fleet, near Gravesend, which caused the fatal accident on Thursday, the 2nd October. This chimney, measuring 220 ft. in height, had just been completed. The contractor and the proprietor of the cement works...were just on the point of ascending to lay the last stone of the cap, when the top was observed to incline outwards, and an unfortunate man who was on the top was seen to jump off and to fall from the top. Immediately some 50 ft. from the top of the chimney fell with a terrible crash, killing and wounding a number of workmen who were underneath...The chimney was then left in a most dangerous state...the upper part was so much out of the vertical and so seamed with cracks that it appeared momentarily tottering to its fall. The proprietors of the cement works...applied for assistance to the Royal Engineers at Chatham...[who] demolished the chimney by means of compressed gun-cotton fired inside the chimney by means of electricity...the whole mass came to the ground, huge blocks of masonry detaching themselves and falling in succession...The whole mass fell close round the base, doing hardly any damage'. From "Illustrated London News", 1873.
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HRM25A12_416
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