#105 - Meux and the Man-Made Tidal Wave (aka the London Beer Flood)
Murder Mile UK True Crime
Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast
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🗓️ 20 August 2020
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
On Monday 17th October 1814, at 5:30pm, an iron hoop on a vat of Porter beer at the Horseshoe Brewery would slip, it didn't seem like an emergency, but it would unleash a deadly tidal wave which would change Great Russell Street and the residents of The Rookery forever
- Date: Monday 17th October 1814
- Location: Meux & Co's Horseshoe Brewery, Tottenham Court Road, Bloomsbury, London, W1
- Victims: 8 (Eleanor Cooper, Mary Murry/ Mulvey, Thomas Murry, Hannah Banfield, Sarah Bates, Anne Saville, Elizabeth Smith and Catherine Butler)
- Culprits: 0 (Sir Henry Meux & Charles Young) were found innoncent
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| 1:09.6 | Welcome to Murder Mile, a true crime podcast, an audio-guided walk, featuring many of |
| 1:16.9 | of London's untold, unsolved and long-forgotten murders, all set within and beyond the West End. |
| 1:26.7 | Today's episode is about a tidal wave, a flood right in the heart of London, |
| 1:33.6 | a terrifying wall of heavy, fast-flowing liquid, so fierce, it left a trail of death in its wake. |
| 1:41.6 | Only this wasn't caused by a river or rain. |
| 1:45.0 | This very unnatural disaster was entirely man-made. |
| 1:51.0 | Murder-Mali's research is using the original police files. |
| 1:55.0 | It contains moments of satire, shock and grisly details, and as a dramatization of the real events, it may also feature |
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