11251 x 7824 px | 95,3 x 66,2 cm | 37,5 x 26,1 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
1865
Lieu:
London
Informations supplémentaires:
Cette image peut avoir des imperfections car il s’agit d’une image historique ou de reportage.
The Great Fire in Southwark - Plan of the Buildings Destroyed, from an actual survey by J.T. Loveday Esq. (of the Phoenix Fire Office). Artist/engraver/cartographer: Lithographed by Edward Weller, from a plan by James Thomas Loveday. Provenance: "Cassell's Complete Atlas", Published by Cassell, Petter and Galpin, London [Cassell's Weekly Dispatch Atlas]. Type: Antique hand coloured lithographed map. A map of the 1861 Tooley Street fire, which started in Cotton's Wharf on Tooley Street, London, England, on 22 June 1861. The fire lasted for two weeks, and caused £2 million worth of damage. During the fire, James Braidwood, superintendent of the London Fire Engine Establishment (whose signature appears in facsimile on the plan) was killed. House of Commons reports cited multiple failures in fire prevention, and the fire led to the 1865 Metropolitan Fire Brigade Act, which established the London Fire Brigade. The map covers the area destroyed by the fire including Cotton's Wharf, Chamberlain's Wharf (now the site of London Bridge Hospital) & Hays Wharf (now Hays Galleria), between Tooley Street and the Thames. James Thomas Loveday, 'Surveyor of Risks' of the Phoenix Fire Office had compiled the plans of wharves and granaries along the Thames to assess fire risk for insurance purposes; his plan, detailing the owners of the affected buildings, was adapted for the 'Weekly Dispatch Atlas', a periodical.