94 The East Anglian Earthquake.
List of places in Essex where the shock was felt.
Aldham, 5 miles W. of Colchester.—Shock rather severe;
slight structural damage. One or two chimneys thrown
down, tiles shaken off roofs, school-house shaken; house-
bells rung.
Althorne, between Maldon and Burnham.—At Stokes Hall
(Mr. John T. Rogers) a clock stopped; pendulum swinging
N.E. and S.W. Another clock swinging in same plane
unaffected.
Ardleigh, 4 miles N.E. of Colchester.—Shock severely felt
and rumbling noise heard; bells in church tower caused to
ring. Mr. D. E. Cardinall states that "the walls of the
room in which we were seemed to undulate just as a large sheet
of canvas stretched upon two vertical poles would when
struck with a staff. All of us were shaken rapidly to and
fro and from side to side in our chairs, as one would be in a
poor railway carriage or a badly-laid line. The servants and
children upstairs rushed about the rooms in great fright,
thinking the house was falling. My head gardener, who was
stooping down by a border, sowing seeds, was alarmed by
suddenly hearing a great rattling noise from the greenhouses,
and the thunder-like rumble underground, when suddenly
the earth seemed to rise under him, and his shadow (for the
sun was shining brightly) appeared to sway about and he was
nearly thrown off his feet. He quickly recovered himself
and ran. An under-gardener, some 200 yards from him on
the other side of the house, declares he felt nothing and
heard nothing. The shock occurred, as nearly as we could
tell, at 9.17." Chimneys were reported to have been thrown
down at Crockleford Mills, near here.
Writing from the Phoenix Flour Mills, Mr. Thomas Robinson
states that in his house a clock was stopped (pendulum
swinging N. and S.) and bells were rung ; sacks of wheat on
the upper floor of the mill fell from E. to W. Oscillation of
building strongly felt, both in house and at the mill.
Asheldham, near Dengey.—Shock felt.
Ashingdon, near Rochford.—Shock felt.