Sujet

Remains of the Whittington Club, after the fire, 1854. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Remains of the Whittington Club, after the fire, 1854. Aftermath of a London fire: '...the Whittington Club House, formerly the Crown and Anchor Tavern, extending from Arundel-street to Milford-lane, was laid in ashes...The fire...broke out in the kitchen of the Club house, at half past five o'clock in the morning; and so rapid was the spread of the flames, as scarcely to allow time for the escape of the inmates sleeping on the premises...All that the servants could do was to effect a rapid exit through one of the parapet windows, and, by making the circuit of the stone coping round the building, get on to the roof of the Illustrated London News printing-office, abutting on the south side of the Club premises; whence some were rescued by means of the Royal Society's fire-escape, and others were lowered by the "lift" attached to the premises'. From "Illustrated London News", 1854.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM22B07_489

Model release

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Property release

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Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

29,3Mo (3,5Mo) / 31,5cm x 23,4cm / 3715 x 2760 (300dpi)

Mots clés

exterior outdoors building London England destruction British accident damage damaged Westminster disaster century Britain catastrophe newspapers press concept incident B&W aftermath 19th century black & white black and white B W nineteenth century City of Westminster The Print Collector Illustrated London News TGN ILN outside newspaper engraving Unknown 19th-century Whittington Club