London Beer Flood of 1814

The good ol days, sometimes a lot like these current days...

Yes we're all looking at you Sacklers https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sackler_family

"The bankruptcy judge acknowledged that the Sacklers had moved money to offshore accounts to protect it from claims, and he said he wished the settlement had been higher."

Wished... Indeed... Only an act of God could have stopped them surely.

As was the practice at the time they'd use an axe to chop into the barrel to empty the contents. He said the entire street was a river full of beer!

- Dublin whiskey fire - Great Molasses Flood - Honolulu molasses spill - Pepsi Fruit Juice Flood

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPoX5nnknUY

It was at the end of Oxford Street where it meets Tottenham Court Road. Considerable investment in the Thameslink underground station has gone on there recently. There is also the Centrepoint Tower. The streetscape is a world away from having breweries with product left to mature for a year in vast vats. Also having slums. If you had one of those original slum houses in that spot today, you could sell it and never work again.

In this story there is good and bad in terms of how our inner cities have changed. Actual industry in the city centre is quaint but I imagine the air quality - that area is nowadays some of the worst in the UK - was no better.