Denaby Fire – Gramophone, Canaries, and Furniture Burnt.

January 1909

Sheffield Daily Telegraph – Saturday 30 January 1909

A Denaby Fire.
Gramophone, Canaries, and Furniture Burnt.

Whilst Benjamin Parry, a miner, of 120, Doncaster Road, Denaby, was at work in the Denaby pit, the remaining members of his household underwent a somewhat alarming experience, about midnight on Thursday.

Mrs. Parry was aroused by crashing sounds resembling falling furniture. This being repeated, she called to her sister and cousin, and they made their way downstairs, to find their progress stopped dense clouds of smoke.

The place was on fire, but, with the aid of a neighbour, the back door was forced from the outside and the flames subdued buckets of water.

It is supposed that the line holding clothes left for drying must have broken, some of the clothes falling into the expiring fixe. The garments were burnt, as were a gramophone and 138 records and six canaries.

The furniture generally suffered, and the damage, the extent of over £2O, falls heavily upon Parry, who had not insured his furniture.