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."
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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
A. Nelson Kyle
Resident of the Central Ward, Hendon who served and died in WW1.
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
John Norwood, VC
He was a second patrol lieutenant in the 5th Dragoon Guards during the Second Boer War. On the 30th October 1899 he took out from Ladysmith a small patrol of the 5th Dragoon Guards. They came unde...
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Roman invasion
The first Roman invasions of Britain took place in 55-54 BCE - Julius Caesar had two attempts. The Roman conquest was only completed in 43 BCE by Emperor Claudius.
1 memorial
Arthur Jackson
Resident of the Central Ward, Hendon who served and died in WW1.
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
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