The 1979 Woolworths Fire | A Short Documentary | Fascinating Horror

"On the 8th of May, 1979, a taxi driver in Manchester, England, radioed his dispatcher to say that he could see smoke billowing from a Woolworths supermarket in the middle of the city..."

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► This video is also available in German (   • Das 1979 Woolworths Feuer | Eine kurz...  )

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CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Intro
00:45 - Background
02:30 - The 1979 Fire
07:18 - The Aftermath

MUSIC:
► "Glass Pond" by Public Memory
► "Underworld" by Myuu

SOURCES:
► "Fire!" by Paul Seaton, published in The Woolworths Museum. Link: https://www.woolworthsmuseum.co.uk/19....
► "'I'll Never Forget It': Manchester Remembers Tragic Woolworths Fire of 1979 That Claimed 10 Lives in Blaze" by Sarah Hodgson, published by Mancunian Matters, May 2013. Link: https://www.mancunianmatters.co.uk/li....
► "Inside the Manchester Woolworths Blaze - The Fire That Claimed Ten Lives - and Changed Britain" by Rob Williams, published by Manchester Evening News, May 2019. Link: https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.....
► "Woolworths Fire: "I Will Never Forget the Sight of Her. She Had Blonde Hair and it Was Black With Smoke" by Rob Williams, published by Manchester Evening News, May 2019. Link: https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.....
► "What Happened in The 1979 Manchester Woolworth Fire?" published by BBC News, December 2012. Link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england....
► "Nostalgia: Woolworths Fire in Colchester in 1973" by Matt Plummer, published by the Essex County Gazette Standard, August 2020. Link: https://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/1....
► "Woman Trapped by Bars in Woolworths Inferno" published by the Birmingham Daily Post, May 1979. Available via the British Newspaper Archive.

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