{"id":187191,"date":"2019-06-21T16:00:33","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T15:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.factstoryhub.com\/?p=187191"},"modified":"2025-02-20T13:39:48","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T13:39:48","slug":"london-beer-flood-facts","status":"publish","type":[],"link":"https:\/\/www.factstoryhub.com\/london-beer-flood-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"The Historical Yet Bizarre London Beer Flood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, <a href="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/www.factstoryhub.com%5C/day%5C/october-17%5C/%5C%22">October 17, 1814, one of history\u2019s strangest industrial tragedies struck the St. Giles borough of London.\n<p>The event, which would later become known as the London Beer Flood, claimed the lives of 9 people, as well as injuring many more and causing damage to multiple houses and buildings in the area.\n</p><p>Sitting on the corner of Great Russel Street and Tottenham Court Road, the Horse Shoe Brewery was a large-scale brewery with several 22-foot high wooden fermentation tanks.\n</p><p>Each of these vats was used for brewing a stout-like beer, and they all held the equivalent of 3,500 barrels worth of beer within them.\n</p><h2>A Faulty Iron Ring\n</h2><p><img loading='\"lazy\"' decoding='\"async\"' class='\"alignnone' size-full wp-image-191536 src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/www.factstoryhub.com%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2019%5C/05%5C/iron-ring.jpg%5C%22" alt='\"A' faulty iron ring width='\"728\"' height='\"360\"' srcset='\"https:\/\/www.factstoryhub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/iron-ring.jpg' https: sizes='\"(max-width:'>\n</p><p>Each one of the brewery\u2019s large vats was held in place by a sturdy iron ring. On that fateful <a title='\"October' special days of the year href="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/www.factstoryhub.com%5C/october-days-of-the-year%5C/%5C%22" target='\"_blank\"' rel='\"noopener' noreferrer>October afternoon, one of these iron rings around the tank snapped due to years of stress and fatigue.\n<p>About an hour after this, the whole tank exploded, released hot fermenting ale out into the factory.\n</p><p>The force of this alcoholic tsunami caused several other tanks to rupture, adding their contents to the flood.\n</p><p>The combined 320,000 gallons of beer hit the brewery\u2019s wall with such force that it collapsed under the tide, pouring out onto the unsuspecting slum streets of St. Giles Rookery.\n</p><h2>A 15-foot tall wave\n</h2><p><img loading='\"lazy\"' decoding='\"async\"' class='\"alignnone' size-full wp-image-191534 src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/www.factstoryhub.com%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2019%5C/05%5C/beer-wave.jpg%5C%22" alt='\"A' tall wave width='\"728\"' height='\"360\"' srcset='\"https:\/\/www.factstoryhub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/beer-wave.jpg' https: sizes='\"(max-width:'>\n</p><p>The torrent of beer reached George Street and New Street within mere minutes washing over everything in its path.\n</p><p>The 15-foot wave of beer and debris poured down the streets, flooding the basements of two houses and causing them to collapse in on themselves like a house of cards.\n</p><p>In one of these houses, Mary Barnfield and her 4-year old daughter Hannah were having their afternoon meal when the flood hit.\n</p><p>The resulting collapse of their house caused both of their deaths.\n</p><p>In the other basement, an Irish wake was being held for a 2-year old boy who had died the day before.\n</p><p>All four of the mourners inside the basement were killed when the beer flooded in and crashed the house down upon itself.\n</p><p>In an ironic twist of fate, the beer flood also broke down the wall of the Tavistock Arms pub, trapping and killing teenage barmaid Eleanor Cooper.\n</p><p>Another pub-goer was also trapped and killed in the wall\u2019s collapse.\n</p><p>Three brewery workers were able to miraculously survive the incident, being pulled from the waist-high flood, whilst another was rescued from the rubble of the wall that the beer had broken out from.\n</p><h2>Free Beer and the Aftermath\n</h2><p><img loading='\"lazy\"' decoding='\"async\"' class='\"alignnone' size-full wp-image-191533 src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/www.factstoryhub.com%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2019%5C/05%5C/beers-cheers.jpg%5C%22" alt='\"Free' beer and the aftermath width='\"728\"' height='\"360\"' srcset='\"https:\/\/www.factstoryhub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/beers-cheers.jpg' https: sizes='\"(max-width:'>\n</p><p>The locals living in the affected area did possibly the most British thing they could do: they saw this as an opportunity for free beer!\n</p><p>Hundreds of people took to the streets, scooping up the liquid in whatever containers they could find \u2013 cups, bowls, and even buckets!\n</p><p>In fact, there were even some reports days later of a ninth victim dying of alcohol poisoning from drinking too much of the runaway beer.\n</p><p>Some local residents tried to make a little bit of money by exhibiting the corpses of victims.\n</p><p>This backfired for one person when a bunch of visitors looking at one basement all plunged into the waist-high flooded cellar after the floor they were stood on collapsed under the stress of the beer flood and their weight.\n</p><p>The stench of beer clung to the St. Giles Rookery area for months afterwards.\n</p><h2>An Act of God\n</h2><p><img loading='\"lazy\"' decoding='\"async\"' class='\"alignnone' size-full wp-image-191535 src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/www.factstoryhub.com%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2019%5C/05%5C/count-system.jpg%5C%22" alt='\"An' act of god width='\"728\"' height='\"360\"' srcset='\"https:\/\/www.factstoryhub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/count-system.jpg' https: sizes='\"(max-width:'>\n</p><p>The Horse Shoe Brewery and their owners, Meux and Company, were taken to court over the incident.\n</p><p>However, both judge and the jury deemed the accident to be an \u201cAct of God,\u201d and as such the charges levied against them were dropped.\n</p><p>The flood cost the brewery about \u00a323,000 at the time \u2013 that\u2019s the equivalent of \u00a31.25 million by today\u2019s standards!\n</p><p>However, because the brewery had already paid duty on the beer, they were able to appeal to the courts to reclaim the cost of the duty.\n</p><p>The courts granted them \u00a37,250 (roughly \u00a3400,000 today) which stopped them from going into bankruptcy.\n</p><p>Due in part to this disaster, wooden fermentation tanks were eventually phased out of use and replaced by sturdier, lined concrete vats.\n</p><p>&nbsp;\n</p><p>So there you have it, the outright weird and wacky story of the London Beer Flood!\n</p><p>The flood that claimed the lives of eight people and damaged countless amounts of homes and properties in <a href="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/www.factstoryhub.com%5C/london-facts%5C/%5C%22">London.\n<p>The next time you\u2019re having a pint at the pub with your mates, hope you don\u2019t get more than you bargained for!\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"</p><p>On Monday the 17th of October, 1814, one of history\u2019s strangest industrial tragedies struck the St. Giles borough of London. 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