Sujet

The Great Fire at Brooks's Wharf, Queenhithe, 1876. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

The Great Fire at Brooks's Wharf, Queenhithe, [London], 1876. 'The...fire took place [in] a large bonded warehouse...having an extensive river frontage, in the occupation of Messrs. John Warner and Sons, merchants...about ten minutes past five the whole City was alarmed by huge masses of dense smoke rising suddenly into the air...The whole available strength of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade was speedily brought into requisition...for two hours, so dense were the smoke and steam, the firemen never saw the upper floors of the building, and their hose had to be brought up over fire-escapes and ladders to the roofs of adjacent premises. About seven o'clock the roof of the building fell in, carrying with it what remained of the three upper floors, in one of which the fire had broken out, and from that time the fire was under control...'. From "Illustrated London News", 1876.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM23A81_352

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Droits gérés

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45,3Mo (5,0Mo) / 42,0cm x 27,1cm / 4960 x 3195 (300dpi)

Mots clés

transport transportation exterior outdoors river building buildings England River Thames Thames people boat boats arts spectators art warehouse warehouses smoke bridge bridges burning fire flame flames spectator British geography color dramatic structure accident damage damaged wharf docks dock hose location disaster century city of london Britain catastrophe emergency services fire brigade newspapers press print hoses concept incident B&W engraved engraving Colour 19th century water transport black & white black and white B W white and black on fire nineteenth century The Print Collector geographical feature Illustrated London News Metropolitan Fire Brigade TGN ILN outside Queenhithe street newspaper Unknown 19th-century