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London Road, Reigate
Reigate's caves
and publisher The Illustrated London News
and year 1860
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Fall of cottages into a sand cave at Reigate. May 19 1860. The Illustrated London News.
"On the morning of Wednesday week the inhabitants of Reigate were alarmed by a loud report, which at first was
believed to be the shock of an earthquake, but it was soon ascertained that it arose from a large sand
cave belonging to the premises of the Red Cross Inn having fallen in. Over this cave there were erected
several cottages, and five of these, or at least portions of them, fell in with the cave, and ten others appeared to be hanging
as it were by a mere thread. The escape of persons (twenty-three in number) who resided in the cottages was
marvellous. The bedsteads in four of the cottages were partly hanging over the chasm, and in one of them a poor
woman was lying very ill, her medical attendment having just left her. She was taken out of the front window.
The inhabitants of Reigate have kindly got up a subscription in aid of the poor people who have had their
furniture destroyed by this singular accident."
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