Author: TOOLEY STREET FIRE
Title: Front View of the Fire of 1861.
Description: 1861. Large hand coloured engraving, 370 x 500 mm. old creases, laid down. The Tooley Street fire destroyed property to the value of 3 million pounds according to the letterpress, later estimated at £2 million, equivalent to around £235 million today. James Braidwood, the Superintendent of the Fire Brigade was killed by a falling wall while handing out their brandy rations to his men> a statue to his memory was erected in Edinburgh, the city of his birth.

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