Author: Lockyear, Arthur,
Title: WARRIORS IN FIRE BOOTS - A Tribute to the Valour of Firefighters.
Description: Jeremy Mills, Huddersfield, 2011, 1st edn., paperback original, [viii], 318pp, half tone photo ills in text, large format (9.5 x 6.5 inches approx., coloured pictorial upper wrapper, a history of the British fire services, from the days of James Braidwood, the Chief Officer of the London Fire Engine Establishment in the first half of the 19th Century, the development of formal fire-fighting establishments in the major cities of Glasgow, Liverpool and Manchester, some major fgires in the first part of the 20th Century, WW2 and the standardisation of equipment and techniques as well as the national expansion of the service, with details of some of the major fires and advances in technology since, fine,

Keywords: british history war ww1 ww2 braidwood blitz auxiliary national fire service dunkirk cheapside street worsley hotel


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