Service for Kirkby Lonsdale maids on 200th anniversary of fire deaths

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    BBC Cumbria, 6 December 2020. "Five maids killed when fire tore through an inn have been remembered at a service marking the 200th anniversary of the tragedy. The blaze took hold at the Rose and Crown in Kirkby Lonsdale, in what is now Cumbria, in the early hours of 6 December 1820. The victims, who had been sleeping in the attic, were aged 17 to 31. During the service flowers were placed at the foot of a memorial in the grounds of the town's St Mary's Church...."
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    Link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-55207382
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    Added by: Simon Cotterill
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