"On the 11th of July 1929 crowds gathered in Gillingham Park in Gillingham, England..."

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CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Intro
00:43 - Background
03:47 - The Gillingham Fair Disaster
08:13 - The Aftermath

MUSIC:
► "Glass Pond" by Public Memory

SOURCES:
► "The 'Fireman's Wedding' Tragedy" by Michael Geelan, from "Fifty Great Disasters and Tragedies that Shocked the World, published by Odhams Press LTD, 1939. Available via: http://oreald.com/b12/ch39.html
► "Gillingham Fire Disaster" published by the Royal Navy Volunteer Cadet Corps, October 2016. Link: https://volunteercadetcorps.org/royal...
► "Gillingham Park Firemen's Wedding tragedy anniversary" by Peter Cook, published by Kent Online, July 2019. Link: https://www.kentonline.co.uk/medway/n...
► The Gillingham Park Fete Tragedy website, published by Lori Oschefski. Link: http://firemanswedding.weebly.com/
► "Memorial wanted for 15 deaths in 1929 Gillingham fire" published by BBC News, October 2010. Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/kent/hi/p...

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