Fire at Bovey Tracey: About six o’clock on Sunday evening a thatched cottage at Beara, occupied by Mr. Tremlett, a farm labourer, in the employ of Mr. Pinsent, was found to be on fire. Mrs. Tremlett found that the flames spread so rapidly that it was impossible to go upstairs to save anything, and very few articles’ downstairs could be removed. Mr. Tremlett and another man, a lodger, were away at the time. Bovey Fire Brigade promptly responded to a call, with Mr. Mardon in charge, but the flames had made such headway that little could be done beside saving the outbuildings close by. Mrs. Tremlett was so frightened that she became ill and had to be removed in a vehicle to Whitestone, the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Pinsent, who showed her and her five children every hospitality. The cottage, etc., are part of an off farm in the occupation of Mr. H. Pinsent, and owned by Mr. W. R. A. Hole, J.P., C.C., Part of the furniture, which was not insured, was saved, but a good quantity of clothes and other things in the bedroom were entirely destroyed. The building was insured.
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Referenced
GRO0419 Hennock: Henry James Pinsent: 1872 – 1927
GRO0652 Hennock: Mary Langmead: 1842 – 1909