From the picture source website: "The fire started in consignment of jute stored at Scovell's warehouse at Cotton's Wharf. This was the biggest of all the peacetime fires in the port: it raged for two days and destroyed most of the nearby buildings. It was the greatest test of the new London Fire Engine Establishment. The whole force was mobilised to fight the blaze, including its head, James Braidwood, who was killed when a wall fell on him. It was a full two weeks before the remaining embers were finally doused."
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Great fire of Tooley Street
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Great fire of Tooley Street
2021: This plaque has been replaced with a similar plaque, re-branded to prom...
James Braidwood
What a great plaque. The inscription is inside a laurel wreath, in front of a...
Other Subjects
K. F. Richmond
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
War served, WW1
1 memorial
Essex Regiment
The regiment was formed from the union of the 44th (East Essex) Regiment of Foot and the 56th (West Essex) Regiment of Foot. Following action in all major conflicts it was gradually disbanded in th...
2 memorials
Driver Pickering
Royal Engineer killed by an exploding bomb while assisting in the attempt to disarm it. Andrew Behan has kindly carried out some research on this man (and points out that our source for the list o...
War dead, WW2
1 memorial
C. E. Haigh
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
War served, WW1
1 memorial
C. Osborne
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
War served, WW1
1 memorial