'Friday night about 12 o'clock the house of Mr Gayner, a working silversmith, next door to the Grafton Head Inn, at the bottom of Hay Hill, Piccadilly, fell down, and tho' 12 or 13 persons were in bed at the same time, and fell with it into the yard, none of them received any great hurt. Mr Gayner, his wife, and others, were bury'd under the ruins for some time before they could be got out.'
Source: Common Sense or The Englishman's Journal - Saturday, 6th October 1739. The same account appeared in the Daily Post - Monday, 1st October 1739.
Trev.