The Sun.
London, England, 1845-12-13 00:00:00

No. 16,68:j.

SPALDING, LINCOLNSHIRE.

FREEHOLD BREWERY, with 25 INNS, PUBLIC, and BEER

HOUSES, &c.
MR. W. W. SIMPSON has received instructions
from the Proprietor to offer for SALE by AUCTION,
at the New Bell Inn, Spalding, in the month of January, in Lots,
The ALBION BREWERY, situate in Double-street, Spaitling,
comprising a convenient residence (occupied by Mr. Proctor, who
has the management of the concern), a paved yard inclosed from
the street by folding gates, in which is the brewhouse, with tun
rooms and extensive malt and hop chambers, counting-house.
cooper's shop, and cask sheds. Across the lane leading to the
river is a spacious store room, large yard approached from Albert-
' street by tolding gates, an excellent malthouse with l 6.quarter steep,
two working floors, kiln, and screening room, with barley chambers
of ample dimensions. waggon and dray shed, coal-house, &c. ; also
a well-house, in which is a well affording an abundant supply of
excellent water to the brewery and malthouse. These buildings are
brick-built and slated, and in a very perfect state of repair; they
possess a commanding frontage of nearly 260 feet to the river
Welland, which communicates with Stamford, and is navigable
to the sea, thus the property must always be exceedingly valuable
from their great extent and the facilities afforded by the cheap
transit of water carriage, and the brewery buildings and yard
at a very moderate outlay might be rendered available for any
other mercantile business ; together with twenty-five inns, public
and beer houses, &c., situate in Spalding, Pinchbeck, Gosberton,
Donington, Thurlby, Weston, Moulton, Whaplode, Holbeach,
Fleet,The property will be sold in lots, and particulars may be had
in due time, of Messrs. J. R. Carter and Son, solicitors, Spalding ;
of Mr. William Proctor, who will new on application show the
home
e agent,
premises; and of Mr. W. W. Simpson, estate, brewery, and
distillery a., Bucklersbury.
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DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY
BY A HIGH TIDE.
The highest tide known for the last twenty-five years
occurred on Thursday night and yesterday morning, and
we are sorry to state that the destruction of property on
both sides of the river has been enormous. The wind
was N. W. during the whole day, and towards night it
increased considerably, and acting upon a spring tide,
T„;:ed an immense body of water up the river. Unfor-
tunatnii ,`:7 the inhabitants of the water-side premises,
the tine Thi: commence flowing until night had set
in, and as it continues:
rising for six hours, some time
before it had reached its height, th
the river had retired to rest in fancied security, ose living near to
conse-
quently they were wholly unprepalfd to resist the
irruption of the water, which poured into the basement
floors and cellars of houses not merely contigas.ms to the
river, but in many parts the river overflowed its banks
to the extent of some hundreds of yards. The scene
that presented itself from London-bridge to Hammer-
smith, when daylight broke, was most disheartening.
The publicans in Thames-street, Bankside, and so on to
Westminster and Lambeth, had their cellars filled with
water. In every instance the butts and puncheons of
beer and spirits were floating about, and in a very many
instances they had been staved in by the violent motion
of the water. The Commercial-road, Lambeth, and flit
Belvidere-road were all under water, and in the latter
roads the cellars were filled. Searle's, the boat-builder's,
premises, the Glass-house, and the wharfs between the
latter place and Bishop's-walk, were flooded to tl-ea
depth of several feet. The road to Lambeth church was
impassable.
The tide reached under the gates of the Archbishop's
Palace, filling the gardens and approaches to the house.
In Fore-street, High-street, and Ferry-street, the li-
censed victuallers and others have sustained great losses,
and the landlady of the Duke's Head, in Fore-street, es-
timates her loss at 200/. Two children who were sleep-
ing in a kitchen in High-street were all but drowned,
and the damage done to the scanty furniture of the poor
people living in the district is very great. At Vauxhall,
the force of the water threw down the wall facingthe em-
bankment of Brunswick-gardens, and the goods' premises
of the South-Wesaern Railway Company were all under
water. A girl in the se: nice of Mr. Noyes, the manager
of the posting department 01' the South-Western Rail-
way, who resides in Belmont-plat;:.'; Wandsworth-road,
was taken out of the kitchen, in which ;he slept, by her
master in an inanimate state, and for some iLree no signs
of animation presented themselves. It seas evident to
the medical gentlemen who were called in, that it few
minutes would have decided her fate, and at the present
time she is in a very precarious state. A large wall
enclosing the Ranelagh estate adjoining the Royal Hos-
pital was thrown down, and the tide having free ingress
extended many hundred yards inland, and. uniting with
the Grosvenor Canal, overflowed a great part of Pimlico.
Battersea marshes were one immense sheet of water, a
circumstance that has not occurred for the last twenty-
five years. The village of Battersea was completely
flooded, and Mr. Lintell, of the Old Swan, is a sufferer
to an alarming extent. On the Chelsea side, the tides
covered the grounds of Cremorne House and reached the
King's-road. Sir Edward East's beautiful grounds at
Battersea were sadly despoiled, and the great portion of
the fencing was torn up. At Wandsworth the tide did
excessive damage. Mr. Pearce, the landlord of the Wa-
terman's Arms, is a loser to the extent of probably 100/.
The White Horse and the Feathers were likewise
flooded, the water positively putting the fires out in the
parlours and taproom. At the latter house a man had
to row in a boat down lisp yard to the styes, to rescue
the pigs. The poor people he:llz at the river side had
the water in their houses to theldef,;h of three 'and four
feet. In many instances it forced up thO flooring. The
churchwardens and overseers, we were glad to observe,
did their best to alleviate the sufferings of these poor
people by giving them tickets for bread and coal, wiiSeh
were most gratefully received. The malt-house of Messrs.
Bradley had two feet water in it ; and the Lower Mill,
belonging to Messrs. Watney and Wills, was flooded to
the depth of eighteen inches, and some hundreds of sacks
of flour have been spoilt. About ninety quarters of oats
were also wetted. On the Richmond Railway works the
timber was driven about in all directions, and the dams,
&c., were filled with water. The tide influencing
the Wandie, caused the latter to rise to an almost unpre-
cedented extent.
At Putney the tide committed great ravages, and so
great was the body of water in the cellar of the Bell
Tavern, that Mr. Ayes, the landlord, was obliged to em-
ploy the parish engine. At Fulham the water rose so
high that the Bishop of London's grounds were flooded,
and the churchyard was under water. The fires on the
ground floor of' the Swan were extinguished, and the
water flowed to the King's Arms, a distance of a quarter
of a mile. Immense quantities of timber and casks were
floated away.
Our correspondents at Rochester and Greenwich state
that the high tide was as remarkable down the river as it
was above the bridge. At the Royal Hospital, Green -
wich, the whole of the wharf frontage was two feet under
water. Church-street, which leads from the Waterman's
Floating Pier to the centre of the town, was, one-half
the distance, under water about two feet ; the warehouses
along-shore inundated, and much injury done to the
property in the lower apartments, and some hundreds of
poor families, whose sleeping-rooms are on the ground
floor, were alarmed by the rush of water into their
rooms. At Deptford-bridge, which is a long way from
the river, the lower warehouses of Messrs. Cobbett and
Co., extensive floor-cloth manufacturers and dealers in
carpeting, were under water, and a considerable quantity
of goods injured, so as to become unsaleble. The ex-
tensive steam flour mills of Messrs. Carpenter, situated
on Deptford Creek, suffered greatly. The engine-room,
boiler, Esc., being deluged, the fires of course extin-
guished, and the machinery extensively damaged.
At Rochester - after nine o'clock, the waters of
the Medway were observed to be rushing upwards with
a force never before witnessed there, and the greater
part of the High-street, of Strood, was soon under water,
and a twenty feet boat with three persons in it, was seen
rowing about where the passengers, only a few minutes
before, had passed dry shod. The damage has been im-
mense. In many places the river has burst its bounds,
and the marshes are flooded in every direction. The
gardens and cultivated grounds in the neighbourhood
which hare been flooded by the salt water, will be long
before they recover from its injurious effects. Fortu-
nately it was a moonlight night, and much stock was
hastily driven to places of safety. The gas works were
under water, and the lighting of the town was suspended.
We have received from another reporter the following
account of the disasters occasioned by the high tide on
each side of the river below London-bridge. At mid-
night, the sudden rushing of the waters over the embank-
ments of the Thames, and through the wharfs and al-
leys leading into the streets, aroused the inhabitants
from their slumbers. A great many persons were saved
in Wapping, Shadwell, the numerous courts and allel s
leading out of Bankside, and other places, by the
activity of the police, and those of the Thames division
were very assiduous in saving people's lives, and drag-
ging them through the flood to places of safety. For an
hour before the time named in the calendar for high
water, the river was several inches above the usual level,
and it continued to flow with a velocity which astonished
the oldest waterman and lighterman, until five minutes
after one o'clock yesterday morning, an hour beyond the
time named for high water et London-bridge, when the
tide was one inch higher at St. Katherine's Dock gates
than it was in November, 1841, when a similar disastrous
visitation occurred. The water rushed through the
streets with irresistible fury, and the cellars, kitchens,
parlours, and shops of the inhabitants were soon filled.
The eruption of the tide was so sudden that people were
obliged to leave their dwellings in haste, and wade
through the water to higher :ground. At Blackwell
there was a large space of ground covered with water.
The extensive factory of Messrs. Ditch burn and Mard,
the iron steamboat manufacturers, on both sides of Bow-
creek, was overflowed, and the materials used in their
business sustained great damage. The firm were obliged
to suspend operations and give their men a holiday yes-
terday, until things were put in order. In the Prince
Albert and Orchard House Taverns, near the factory, the
water was four feet deep in the principal rooms on the
ground floor, and the loss of spirits, ale, and beer in the
cellars of each house is estimated at 1501. The High-
street, Wapping, from the Tunnel to Union-stairs, ap-
peared like a canal, and boats were plying backwards
and forwards, receiving the tradesmen, shopkeepers, and
others, or carrying passengers from one end of the street
to the other. Those who did not reach home before
twelve in this neighbourhood were obliged to remain
out all night, or else avail themselves of the boats to
reach their dwellings. The casks and barrels in the
Watermen's Arms public-house, at Wapping New-
stairs, were floating about the cellars, and as the water
rose they lifted the flooring, broke down the bar, and
made a partial wreck of the place. The landlord, Mr.
Wasmuth, estimates his loss at ay. A similar disaster
took place at the Ship, Execution Dock, kept by Mr.
Vincent, and at several other houses of public entertain-
ment on the banks of the river. Shortly before one
o'clock the screams of a family living in one of the
small tenements in Cross-alley, near Gun-dock, iaduced
some of the Thames police to attempt a rescue, and a
woman and four children were taken oat of an apart-
ment into which the water had penetrated. The family
had a narrow escape.
In R. otherhithe and *Bermondsey there was a great
quantity of corn spoiled in the granaries. The deposit
of mud and slime, left on the receding of the tide, did
more damage to grain, perishable goods on the wharfs,
and furniture, than the waters of the Thames. The water
was six feet in depth yesterday morning, at half-past
twelve o'clock, in Upper Ground-street, and a street
leading out of it called Boddy's-bridge, near Messrs.
Hawes' soap manufactory. The Commercial-road,
Pedlar's-acre, a great portion of the Belvidere-road, and
the numerous timber wharfs in the vicinity, were under
water ; and when the tide ebbed, large piles and deals
were carried out into the steam. Business was sus-
pended at many of the wharfs during the whole of y.e-
terday. At daybreak the ravages of the flood were
visi-
ble in all directions, and pumps were in requisition by
T
the owners of long-shore property torget rid of the ele-
ment which did so much damage. he Tower-wharf,
Bankside, the Bishop's-walk, Lambeth, the Battersea-
meadows, and the low parts of Westminster were a'so
overflowed. A curious scene occurred in the neigh-
bourhood of Bankside. The tide penetrated the sewers,
and dislodged numerous colonies of rats, which were
hunted by dogs amidst the clamorous vociferations of
their owners, which added to the general confusion
which prevailed. The wind abated after this visitation,
and fortunately the tide of yesterday afternoon did not
rise above the ordinary level, although the moon was at
the full in the evening. Additional embankments on
both shores are much required to prevent loss of pro-
perty by extraordinary high tides.
FALMOUTH.—An invitat. ;. Freahfield,
formerly member for the upi skretu•yn and Fal-
mouth, to come forwardtt :whaitiver the repre-
sentation of the borough s .ilacant, has been circulating
for signatures, during the (141 tek, and we understand it
has been numerously and 't j
.bly kignetl 17 the emelt-
tuancy,—Penzance Garettait. '
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