Sujet

Ruins of the Great Fire at Gravesend - looking West, 1850. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Ruins of the Great Fire at Gravesend - looking West, 1850. 'The High-street...from the Town-hall downwards, to within a short distance of the Town Pier, was at four o'clock completely enveloped in flames, which, when they involved the premises of Mr. Troughton, tallow-chandler, and an oil-shop...contiguous to it, formed an awful conflagration...all hope of preserving a single house between the Town-hall and the pier was abandoned...notwithstanding that the Hartford and Rochester engines had arrived, and a prodigious volume of water was discharged on the whole line of burning houses on both sides of the street. There was, fortunately, sufficient time to save the cash-boxes...of the County and Savings Banks, which were taken to the Customhouse, all the officers of which were actively engaged, with the townspeople, in working the engines'. From "Illustrated London News", 1850.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM22A33_429

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Droits gérés

Format disponible

51,2Mo (4,9Mo) / 42,0cm x 30,5cm / 4960 x 3606 (300dpi)

Mots clés

building buildings England job occupation burning fire British accident ruins ruin hose Victorian century Kent Britain profession firefighter firefighters emergency services fire brigade newspapers press hoses concept ruined incident B&W engraved engraving 19th century black & white black and white B W on fire nineteenth century The Print Collector Gravesend Illustrated London News TGN ILN newspaper Unknown 19th-century