48 The East Anglian Earthquake.
direction of its length N.N.E. and S.S.W.,26 and having
suspended over it by long hooks descending from two parallel
bars about fifty chandeliers and other lamps. Startled by the
shock and the jangling of the suspended articles, the assistant
looked up and saw the chandeliers, &c, swinging, the plane
of their movement being, as far as he could judge, parallel
with the direction of the counter and the parallel bars above.
The oscillation of these movable articles continued for some
time. The sides of some iron bedsteads in the warehouse,
resting against a wall facing N., were thrown down towards
the S. Of three clocks in this house two swung E. and W.
and one N. and S.; only one of the former was stopped.
The Town Hall escaped with but slight injury ; only some
of the coping shaken down.
Culver Street.—Wesleyan School slightly cracked in N. wall
near roof. School was being held at the time, and a panic
ensued, but no injury was sustained by the scholars. Chim-
neys at the Conservative Club thrown down. A warehouse at
the back of No. 12, High Street, had a chimney thrown
down and the roof considerably damaged.
Stockwell Street.—In the neighbourhood of the ' Essex Tele-
graph ' Printing Works, East Stockwell Street, chimneys were
overthrown and ceilings cracked. In West Stockwell Street
damage was done at St. Martin's Club, and in another house
the chimney-stack broke through from roof to basement.
Mr. W. H. Harwood (No. 8) reports that he was standing in
a room on the first floor, facing E., and the movement
produced a giddiness analogous to that caused by the motion
of a ship. The disturbance, he adds, " did not reach me
from behind [W.] or from the left side [N.]." A clock was
stopped in this house at about 9.17 (seconds not noted);
oscillation of pendulum E. and W. Other clocks swinging
N. and S. were not affected.
26 This direction was ascertained by means of a compass at the time of
our visit, but as the shop was crowded with iron articles of all kinds but
little importance attaches to the compass reading. The direction of the
counter (and therefore of the swing of the chandeliers) was approxi-
mately N. and S.