140 The East Anglian Earthquake.
Holland Park Terrace, W.—Mr. Alfred Crookes, No. 15,
writes as follows :—
" As my wife and I were sitting reading after breakfast, I
felt a sort of sidelong heaving of the chair and a sinking
giddy sensation in my head, and at the same moment the
folding doors, which were shut, bumped backwards and
forwards three times without opening, and the windows back
and front of the house (nearly due N. and 8.), rattled
sharply. I looked at the clock immediately, and remarked
to my wife that it must have been an earthquake."
The house stands about 100 feet above sea-level, and Mr.
and Mrs. Crookes were having breakfast in an upper room.
Nothing was felt in the next house.
Addison Road, W.—Writing from No. 82, Mr. W. B. Gady
reports that he was in his dressing-room and observed the
swinging of the curtains of a shower-bath; at the same
moment his wife, in bed in an adjoining room, felt the
movement of the bed and saw the curtains shaken. Move-
ment apparently E. and W.: time 9.19: watch correct by
Greenwich time within 15 seconds.
Kilburn.—The following letter to the ' Kilburn Times ' of
May 2nd has been forwarded to me by the writer, Dr. Henry
T. Wharton, M.A., of 39, St. George's Road:—
"The earthquake which occurred on Tuesday morning,
April 22nd, was more widely felt in Kilburn than your brief
note would imply. Many of my patients noticed it, although
none of them thought of assigning the right cause to the
phenomena. A lady in St. George's Road fancied that a
traction-engine must have been passing, only she wondered
why she could hear no noise ; she was always curious to feel
an earthquake, but she has no desire to repeat this, her first
experience of one. More than one member of a family in
Priory Road wondered why the furniture, and especially the
ornaments on the mantelpiece, rocked so strangely, and they
observed to one another, ' If we had still been in Lisbon, we
should have thought it was an earthquake.' An invalid in
Goldhurst Road was much mystified by the motion of the
bed-hangings. In some instances pictures hanging awry on
the wall, with a strange uniformity, such as no housemaid
would cause, bore witness that they had felt the seismic
disturbance. An old nurse in Sutherland Gardens was so