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#153 - GEC and the Fourth Floor Girls (St Paul's, London, British)

Murder Mile UK True Crime
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Today’s episode is about a fire in an old building fitted with modern innovations to ensure its workers safety, and although everyone should have survived, it was the old-fashioned attitude towards one particular group of workers, which led to ten unnecessary deaths. This is the story of the fire at the General Electric Company at 67 Queen Victoria Street in London. Date: Monday 9th June 1902, the fire started at roughly 5pmLocation: Fourth floor, General Electric Company Ltd, 68 Queen Victoria Street in London, UK, EC1 (building now demolished)Victims: 10 (Phyllis Caroline M Elliott aged 14, Jessie Georgina Hastie aged 15, Arthur Vernon Paget aged 21, Mable Garrett 16, Ada Steel 15, Lily Amelia Mansell 16, Mabel Amos 17, Gladys Chambers 14, Violet Hodgeson 18, and Florence Amor aged 18)Keywords: neglect, corporate manslaughter, tragedy, girls, Blog - https://www.murdermiletours.com/blog/murder-mile-uk-true-crime-podcast-153-gec-and-the-fourth-floor-girls-the-mansion-houses-fire Murder Mile is researched, written and performed by Michael J Buchanan-Dunne of Murder Mile Walks with the main musical themes written and performed by Erik Stein and Jon Boux of Cult With No Name with additional music, as used under the Creative Commons License 4.0 (Attribution) via Free Music Archive and YouTube Music. A full listing of tracks used and a full transcript for each episode is listed here and a legal disclaimer. FOLLOW US HERE: Facebook Twitter Instagram Murder Mile Discussion Group Youtube Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/murdermile. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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