Often the cockloft is empty in those whom Nature hath built many stories high.
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The audience numbered nearly two thousand, pit, gallery and cockloft being filled to overflowing.
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As the ceilings were pulled, fire was moving across the cockloft from the adjacent hardware store.
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The alley hugged itself in the joyful sensation that it had a miser and his hoard in the cockloft.
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There are three reasons for unusually rapid fire spread in a cockloft of a multiple dwelling or row of stores.
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Heated fire gases and flame in a concealed space can travel upwards several floors and break out in a cockloft.
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The fire then spread to other businesses through a common cockloft, a part of the roof shared by adjoining buildings.
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A ladder connected with a hole in the roof enabled you to reach the cockloft, the guest room of the establishment.
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There is a cockloft, where the men write their letters, and rude benches, where they sit and smoke and tell yarns till bedtime.
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Firefighter Cool looked up and saw that the ceiling was beginning to burn from the outside in, from a fire in the cockloft above.
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When firefighters arrived they saw heavy black smoke billowing from the top right corner of the building, which is the cockloft or storage area.
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You'll find flagstone floors, beamed ceilings and roaring log fires as well as three bedrooms, all beautifully decorated, and a fabulous cockloft for children.
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The fire swept through the halls of the second floor in the north wing of the school, and flashed through the cockloft above the classrooms.
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Then she told him where the steps were and insisted that he should go up into the cockloft to be sure that I was not there.
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The fire spread so quickly because the two-story houses were connected across a common cockloft, a ventilation space between the ceiling and the roof, Lieutenant Ganun said.
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Soon after entering the shop, wild boar hid inside the cockloft but it jumped down, after holing sheetrock, in the middle of dummies and bit one of them.
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After the fire was brought under control, in about an hour, investigators traced its origin to the bottom of a shaft, used to dry wet hoses, that runs up the building to the cockloft.
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The building's old roof had been re-coated numerous times, and the tar had become very thick. Consequently, the heat of the fire was not able to burn quickly through the roof. If it had, it would have opened a hole that would have served to vent much of the smoke and gasses. Eventually, as the temperature continued to rise in the enclosed space, the wood of the cockloft itself flashed over.
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Christopher Hill tells us what he found. "Nedham took 'a citizen of worth out of Bread Street' with him, and at a chandler's shop in Great Trinity Lane, 'against one Mr Millis a brown-baker, near Bow Lane end' found 'a couple of tailors together with two women and an old country plain man of Essex ... at the top of an old house in a cockloft.' He bought a 12d pamphlet from them." Muggleton also cursed the citizen of worth, presumably free of charge.
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Ignition took place in a cardboard trash barrel located a few feet from the northeast stairwell. The fire smoldered undetected for approximately 20 minutes, gradually heating the stairwell and filling it with a light grey smoke that later would become thick and black, as other combustibles became involved. At the same time, it began sending superheated air and gases into an open pipe chase very near the source of the fire. The pipe chase made an uninterrupted conduit up to the cockloft above the second- floor classrooms (see "Evacuation" below).
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This caused further drafts of air and an additional oxygen supply to feed the flames. Two other doors were chained open when they should have been closed; these doors were at the first and second floor levels leading into the annex. The upper door was quickly closed, but the lower one remained open throughout the fire. As the fire consumed the northeast stairway, a pipe chase running from the basement to the cockloft above the second floor false ceiling had been feeding superheated gases for some minutes on a direct route to the attic.
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It had a plush interior, and private boxes in the orchestra, but, perhaps due to newspaper editorials questioning the project's republican values, Note: This is not the same article as the June 9 one with the same name. was consciously somewhat less "aristocratized" than the Astor Opera House had been – there, general admissions were relegated to the benches of a "cockloft" reachable only by a narrow stairway, and otherwise isolated from the gentry below, while in the new theatre many of the regular seats were relatively inexpensive.Burrows & Wallace, p.
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Kemble was born in 1786 to a prominent family in New York City, the eldest son of prosperous attorney and merchant Peter Kemble of New Jersey. Ships of the firm Gouverneur & Kemble conducted trade in the West Indies, Europe and China."Gouverneur & Kemble letter book", New York Public Library Archives Kemble was educated in New York and graduated from Columbia College in 1803, then entered the mercantile business. He was friends with Washington Irving and other members of city society, who enjoyed socializing at Cockloft Hall (an old family mansion on the Passaic River which Kemble inherited and was sometimes known as "Salmagundi" or the "Bachelor's Elysium").
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The fire then swept down through the hallway ceiling's ventilation grates into the second floor corridor as it flashed through the cockloft above the classrooms. Glass transom windows above the doors of each classroom broke as the heat intensified, allowing superheated gasses and thick black smoke in the hallway to enter the classrooms. By the time the students and their teachers in the second floor classrooms realized the danger (and the occupants of several of the rooms, until that moment, did not realize the danger), their sole escape route into the hallway was impassable. The second floor of the north wing had become a perfect fire trap.
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