Great Fire at Sir Conan Doyle's Home
From The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia
Great Fire at Sir Conan Doyle's Home are 3 photos published in The Daily Mirror on 16 august 1929.
- Photo 1: Sir Arthur and Lady Conan Doyle and one of their sons with furniture which they rescued yesterday from their burning home.
- Photo 2: During the fire. The skeleton structure at the back indicates the severe damage.
- Photo 3: Sir A. Conan Doyle (centre) with his wife, sons and daughter (on left).
All the family of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the famous novelist and spiritualist, joined him in the rescue of valuable documents and furniture when his home, Bignell House, Bignell Wood, near Southampton, blazed fiercely yesterday. Sir Arthur had converted an old thatched cottage into a country house, adding a modern wing, and fire broke out in the thatch. The old portion of the house was severely burned and the new wing also suffered damage. ("Daily Mirror" photographs.)
