Tooley street fire (3 risultati)

Unframed Print. Condizione: Very Good. 3 pages, main image size 24 x 33 cms approx. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Supplied without title page or cover. Size: Page size 26 x 38 cms. Category: Illustrated Times; PRINTS : Historic News; This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. …

Large hand coloured engraving, 370 x 500 mm. old creases, laid down. The Tooley Street fire destroyed property to the value of 3 million pounds according to the letterpress, later estimated at £2 million, equivalent to around £235 million today. James Braidwood, the Superintendent of the Fire Brigade was killed by a falling wall while handing out their brandy rations to his men; a statue to his memory was erected in Edinburgh, the city of his birth.…

Large wood cut, 375 x 485 mm. old central light crease, laid down. "The list of stores consumed, or utterly spoilt, includes nearly three thousand tons of sugar, between four and five thousand tons of rice, about eight hundred tons of sago, more than eighteen thousand bales of cotton, from eight to ten thousand casks of tallow, thirty-five thousand chests of tea, a thousand or more tons of hemp, and upwards of eleven hundred tons of jute." The considerable losses suffered by the insurance companies led to improvements in warehouse storage.…