TOOLEY STREET FIRE - A View of the Great Fire in Southwark: From London Bridge!

S.Marks and Sons, 1861. Large wood cut, 375 x 485 mm. old central light crease, laid down. "The list of stores consumed, or utterly spoilt, includes nearly three thousand tons of sugar, between four and five thousand tons of rice, about eight hundred tons of sago, more than eighteen thousand bales of cotton, from eight to ten thousand casks of tallow, thirty-five thousand chests of tea, a thousand or more tons of hemp, and upwards of eleven hundred tons of jute." The considerable losses suffered by the insurance companies led to improvements in warehouse storage.

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