17th October 1814: London Beer Flood kills eight people when nearly one and a half million litres of beer sweep out of the Horse Shoe Brewery

HistoryPod · Oct 17, 2026

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Once the beer began to pour into the street, it quickly began to fill the cellars of nearby houses in which families lived, killing eight ...