Sujet

Ruins of the Great Fire in Mark-Lane - sketched from Seething-Lane, 1850. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Ruins of the Great Fire in Mark-Lane - sketched from Seething-Lane, [in the City of London], 1850. 'The three warehouses belonging to Mr. Joseph Barber...burned down, were insured by Mr. Barber for £10,000 in the Phoenix-office (a sum inadequate to rebuild the premises). They cost the East India Company £23,000 to erect..Very little salvage is expected to be cleared from the ruins of Messrs. Barber's warehouses...Such was the intensity of the heat on Wednesday afternoon in Messrs. Cunliffe and Dobson's wine-cellars...that the thermometer rose as high as 74 degrees, independently of the immense stock of wines in wood, there were no fewer than 6798 bottles in racks, and, from the strong heat, it was feared that the whole would be spoiled'. From "Illustrated London News", 1850.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM22A36_404

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Property release

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Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

44,8Mo (4,4Mo) / 42,0cm x 26,8cm / 4960 x 3160 (300dpi)

Mots clés

road building buildings England job destruction warehouse warehouses occupation burning fire British lane accident damage damaged ruins ruin location debris rubble Victorian century city of london Britain profession firefighter firefighters emergency services fireman firemen insurance fire brigade newspapers press concept ruined incident B&W aftermath engraved engraving 19th century black & white black and white B W on fire nineteenth century The Print Collector Illustrated London News Mark Lane TGN ILN street newspaper Unknown Seething Lane débris 19th-century