Dundas Street Fire - 1911
A picture of the blaze is found on the website of the London Fire Department. See also the Vintage London Facebook page, from which this was copied:
"In the early morning hours of November 3rd, 1911 the most destructive fire in London in 25 years occurred on Dundas St, between Richmond St & Talbot St, on the north side. The fire broke out at 3:57 a.m & by 6 a.m five businesses (J.H Chapman & Co, T.F Kingsmill & Co, W.L Mara & Co, Brewster's Fancy Goods Store and Roome, Corbett & Co) were completely destroyed. Two other businesses (Purdom's Hardware & R.J. Young & Co) were heavily damaged in the inferno. Other nearby businesses were also damaged due to flying embers. The suspected source of the fire was in the rear of Chapman's Dry Goods Store. Due to strong northwest winds the fire spread easily from west to east along Dundas St. The fire walls on the west side of Purdom's Hardware & the east wall of Roome, Corbett & Co prevented the inferno from spreading further."
In MM, I happened to capture an inside view of Kingsmill's and an outside one of Dundas Street from Google, before the former disappeared and the latter became worse. If you click on the images in this post, you can view them: "Detour"- they are found under "Diversions."
Source: This snippet is taken from the Waxahachie Daily Light, Nov.3, 1911.
Waxahachie is near Dallas.
A small bonus:
It is, by the way, the "Crape Myrtle Capital of Texas" - or Crepe, if you prefer.
