{"id":62288,"date":"2026-10-08T03:07:36","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T03:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/kingston-community-sad-and-wounded-by-ancient-market-fire\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T03:07:36","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T03:07:36","slug":"kingston-community-sad-and-wounded-by-ancient-market-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/kingston-community-sad-and-wounded-by-ancient-market-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Kingston community &#8216;sad and wounded&#8217; by Ancient Market fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b>A clean-up is under way after a fire which destroyed a number of stalls at Kingston&#8217;s Ancient Market, as well as damaging a number of nearby shops.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Metropolitan Police said the cause of the fire, which started at the south-west London market in the early hours of Tuesday, was not suspicious. London Fire Brigade said the fire was &#8220;accidental&#8221;, but did not provide any further information.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tim Meads, a fishmonger in the market for 42 years, said: &#8220;It&#8217;s taken everything away from me. Devastating.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His stall is among those damaged, and he fears \u00a32,000 worth of fish stored in the outdoor fridges has been destroyed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Hopefully we will rebuild, the town needs us,&#8221; he said. &#8220;At the moment I&#8217;ve lost everything.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cw3djej04e77o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A clean-up is under way after a fire which destroyed a number of stalls at Kingston&#8217;s Ancient Market, as well as damaging a number of nearby shops. The Metropolitan Police said the cause of the fire, which started at the south-west London market in the early hours of Tuesday, was not suspicious. London Fire Brigade [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[4594,1958,666,17026,373,12653,11205],"class_list":["post-62288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-england","tag-ancient","tag-community","tag-fire","tag-kingston","tag-market","tag-sad","tag-wounded"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62290,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62288\/revisions\/62290"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}