MOSBRO’. Fire. —On Monday night, about eleven o’clock a fire was discovered in the cellar under the grocer’s shop of Mr. Jabez Peat at Mosbro’, by one of the neighbours, who gave an alarm, and Mr. Peat, who with his family had retired to rest, was called up. When one of the doors was opened, it was discovered that the large shop was full of flames, and that the light the cellar was from the burning materials in the shop.
The flames had already burnt hole through the flooring. As admission into the shop could not got through the house on account the flames, and the front shop door was broken in. Plenty of assistance and water being at hand, the fire was confined to the shop and was quickly subdued. Considerable damage was done to the shop, and a great quantity of the stock destroyed.
Nothing is known as to the origin of the fire; Mrs. Peat was in the shop about ten o’clock, and turned off the gas at the meter, and all seemed then to be safe. The building is insured in the Liverpool and London and Globe Insurance Company, but the stock was not insured.
Derbyshire Times and Chesterfield Herald – Saturday 08 May 1869
