Folkestone
Express 16-4-1927
Local News
Considerable damage was done at the furniture store
occupied Mr. G. Balderson, furniture dealer, Grace Hill, during Monday night or
early on Tuesday morning by the collapse of a wall.
The store, which was filled with furniture of various
kinds, adjoins the Foresters Arms, and it was the outer wall which collapsed.
The wall, which is of stone, and is about 12 inches thick, caved in for about
half the length of the store, giving way from just below the roof, and the
stonework, and many tons of earth from the garden of the Foresters Arms fell
upon some of the furniture, which was completely broken or very badly damaged.
A surveyor who visited the spot on Tuesday on behalf of the owners, gave it as
his opinion that the land in the garden slipped, and the weight caused the wall
to give way. Amongst the earth carried into the store was a small tree, which
was practically under the roof of the building, when it was opened on Tuesday.
It is estimated that the weight from the whole of the garden, from the Copthall
Steps to the building itself, was 3,000 tons, and this was pressing on to the
wall, which could not withstand such a tremendous weight.
The slip of earth is most probably due to the recent
very heavy rainfall.
Mr. Balderson was in the store himself on Monday night
at ten o`clock, when everything appeared to be all right, and the wall was
apparently as intact as it had always been.
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