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station. The row of houses on each side of the cutting is a
lot of new red brick dwellings. On the west side the houses
are older. As far as I could see and learn, these houses
entirely escaped damage." Mr. Symons reports that " at a
small but substantial building belonging to Wivenhoe Hall,
and just outside the village, an entire gable had fallen to N.
(about 100 feet of brickwork.")
Wivenhoe Hall, the residence of Mr. James Jackson, a
strongly-built mansion standing on a low drift-covered hill
overlooking the river towards Rowhedge, was considerably
damaged. Four out of five heavy chimney-stacks were thrown
down, the debris falling partly towards the N.E. and partly
to S.W.; one stack crashed through the roof into one of the
upper bedrooms, nearly two tons of the brickwork falling
into a bath which bad just been used by Mr. Jackson's
nephew. Another chimney was torn away from the side of
the house, leaving a wide crack; and at the north-east end
of the hall the gable was partly thrown down. On ascending
to tho roof, it was pointed out to us that the north parapet
was cracked and in a loosened condition, while the southern
parapet was not injured. Over one of the windows of the
southern frontage a considerable portion of the upper row
of bricks had fallen out from about the middle towards
the E.
This form of damage was occa-
sionally observed elsewhere during
our inspection, in some cases the
arched row of bricks over a window
or doorway having been momen-
tarily loosened, and some of the
bricks either allowed to fall out
altogether, or else they were re-
tained in their downward course
by their conical form. This mode of retention is also well
shown in the accompanying figure :—