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Christ Church Spitalfields - fire

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British History On-line puts the blame squarely on the "negligence of the steeple-keeper". There you can see the exact cost of the repairs to each element destroyed by the fire and the name of the firm that provided the repairs or replacement.

No one died so our category of Tragedy is perhaps overdoing it.

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Christ Church Spitalfields - fire

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Christ Church Spitalfields - fire

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