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
W. Montgomery
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
War served, WW1
1 memorial
A. V. Packham
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
War served, WW1
1 memorial
Women’s Transport Service (FANY)
All-women unit, affiliated to the TA, formed as the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry and active in both nursing and intelligence work during WW1 and WW2. The original role was to ride horseback (hence "...
1 memorial
A. S. G. Harding
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
War served, WW1
1 memorial
Marshal Ferdinand Foch
Soldier and writer. Born in Tarbes, Hautes-Pyrénées, France. He enlisted in the French army in 1870 during the Franco-Prussian war. During the First World War he distinguished himself at the battle...
1 memorial