Accident - Commercial Union Assurance Company Building
The Commercial Union Assurance Company Building, Cornhill, London fell at midnight on 6th August 1927. Being a Saturday the premises were empty and nobody was killed or injured. Details in the city press and the Times list the possible cause as underground rivers and artesian wells being blocked up by underground railway (tube tunnel) building. One entire side of the building fell into the street and an adjoining building site
Picture No
10909947
Media ID
45533207
Size
3363px x 5458px
(2.6MB)
Credit
Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection
Source
Photochrom Company postcard, Tunbridge Wells
Date
1927
