Fire at Bovey Tracey: A cottage and its contents destroyed: About six o’clock last evening a cottage at Bera, on the estate of Mr. W. R. Hole, was discovered to be on fire. The cottage was thatched, and the wife of the occupier (Tremlett, a farm hand of Mr. Pinsent, of Whitstone) states that the flames spread so rapidly that it was impossible to get upstairs to save anything, and downstairs very few articles could be saved. Tremlett, the husband, and also an old man who lodged in the house were both away at the time. The fire-engine from Bovey (about half a mile away) was soon on the spot, but the fire had made such headway that little could be done except save some outbuildings close by. The shock and fright made the poor woman so ill that Mr. Pinsent kindly had her removed in his trap to his house at Whitstone. The loss to Tremlett is great, as unfortunately the furniture was not insured.
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GRO0419 Hennock: Henry James Pinsent: 1872 – 1927