Full titles read: “Riverside Timber Yard Blaze - Hero-Firemen, in an inferno of heat, fight the flames unceasingly for nearly 2 days.“
Kingston, Surrey (?).
Various shots of the smoking timber yard - quite difficult to make out in amid the smoke! Firemen hold hoses from Kingston Bridge over the burning yard.
Intertitle reads: “Famous old Kingston Bridge was seriously damaged by heat.“
Panning L/S of the smoking timber yard and Kingston Bridge - it doesn’t look too damaged from this angle but traffic and pedestrians are on the far side of the bridge from the blaze.
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