# @wild_history_uk on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DZpAxN3II1z
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/66798239-wild-history-uk-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-06-16T08:57:08.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Wild History Shocking Stories From the Past (@wild_history_uk) — https://gondola.cc/wild_history_uk

## Caption

A 15-foot wave tore through a London slum in 1814 and killed 8 people — all women and children. It was made of beer.

Behind the St Giles rookery, the Horse Shoe Brewery’s two-storey wooden vat burst after a clerk ignored a slipped iron hoop. A tide of porter brought down the brewery wall and poured into the cellars where whole families lived below street level. Five of the dead were at a wake, mourning a two-year-old boy.

The jury ruled it “an act of God.” No one was blamed. The families got nothing — and Parliament refunded the brewery’s tax on the lost beer.

An act of God — or of someone?

Save this for more forgotten British history.

#BritishHistory #ForgottenHistory #LondonHistory #HiddenHistory

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forgottenhistory, londonhistory, britishhistory, hiddenhistory

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