Charles Weaver took some photographs of the fire.  He may have attended with a fire appliance from Dickinson's Paper Mills in Apsley.

Details of Charles Weaver and his work in Iraq, and his work and pictures of  the paper mills are are
on http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/mesopotamia

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Before. Taken in 1901	February 1905	Feb 1905
Back of the card next	Where the bulter was	Looking for Diamonds in the Debris
Who was looking for Diamonds

The house has now been restored fully by the Moir Family.