*TBC Archive* Fire damage reports?
Posted: Sat May 23, 2009 4:34 pm
My grandfather's (MARK HANS MOLLER) marriage certificate shows him as residing at 35 Upper Street, Islington in July 1908.
I have actually been there and seen it. Today it's a restaurant on the ground floor but the building above it (where the residential flat would have been) is totally void and gutted out. You can actually see it on Google Maps. I have asked the restaurant manager but they know not. It's rather weird with all the flats above the shops to the left and right of this address still standing but this one totally void! I have asked the local fire station if it was bomb (WW2) damage or a fire that gutted out this flat but they were unable to assist me. I have asked the local authority for any info on this and they are looking into it to locate a date so I can, hopefully, look it up in the Newspaper Library at Colindale.
This got me thinking. Would there be an organisation (with online facilities preferably) that lists buildings damaged by fire over a certain period of time? Surely, I would have thought the insurance companies would have some sort of details to "enable" them NOT to pay out!
Any ideas folks?
David
I have actually been there and seen it. Today it's a restaurant on the ground floor but the building above it (where the residential flat would have been) is totally void and gutted out. You can actually see it on Google Maps. I have asked the restaurant manager but they know not. It's rather weird with all the flats above the shops to the left and right of this address still standing but this one totally void! I have asked the local fire station if it was bomb (WW2) damage or a fire that gutted out this flat but they were unable to assist me. I have asked the local authority for any info on this and they are looking into it to locate a date so I can, hopefully, look it up in the Newspaper Library at Colindale.
This got me thinking. Would there be an organisation (with online facilities preferably) that lists buildings damaged by fire over a certain period of time? Surely, I would have thought the insurance companies would have some sort of details to "enable" them NOT to pay out!
Any ideas folks?
David
Sorry...