From Berrow's Worcester Journal Saturday 17th February 1855 On Sunday night a house in the Lower Road, Islington, fell with a crash that resounded through the neighbourhood. At first, the staircase and central portion of the house fell down. The conductor of the fire-escape, stationed on Islington Green, proceeded to the spot where he found a man, his wife and two children at the second floor front window. He ascended, and brought down in safety the four persons whose lives were so much jeopardised. As other portions of the house continued falling, the machine was obliged to be removed and immediately afterwards the whole front of the building fell to the ground, burying in the ruins a number of people. The following is the correct list of the killed:- Thomas HODGES, aged 14 years; *George HODGES, aged 8 years; Joseph GLOVER, aged 26 years; Jane GLOVER, aged 23 years, the wife of the former; Joseph GLOVER, aged 4 years, a son of the before-named; *Sarah LANE, aged 40 years; and Francis STOKER, a police-constable of the N-division, No. 262, aged 38, who has left a widow and one child to deplore his untimely death. The circumstances attending this officer's death are of a very deplorable nature. The brave fellow, having heard the cries of a woman in the house, rushed through one of the doors, reached the place the woman was in, took her in his arms, and was in the act of carrying her downstairs, when a portion of the side wall fell, and both were forced down and instantly covered with the rubbish. When extricated, both were found to be quite dead. The building in question was a very old one, consisting of a double house, one half of which was over a shop; the other half was over a gateway forming an entrance to some stables at the back" *The people who died were actually Samuel LANE aged 46 and James HODGES aged 8. The story & subsequent coroner's inquest was covered in great detail by The Times and many other papers. In the house at the time of the collapse were (amongst others) married sisters Jane GLOVER nee JAUNCEY & Eliza Ann HODGES nee JAUNCEY and their families. Benjamin JAUNCEY, brother of the 2 women, lived around the corner and was injured trying to rescue his sisters and their families. Eliza Ann & Charles HODGES and 2 of their children survived the collapse. Jane & Joseph GLOVER, Joseph GLOVER jnr and Thomas & James HODGES all perished. Paula