2-699-381 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Great Fire at Cotton's Wharf Tooley Street, 1861', (c1878). Depiction of the Tooley Street fire at Cotton's Wharf on the south bank of the River Thames in Bermondsey, London. James Braidwood, superintendent of the London Fire Engine Establishment, was killed, and thousands of tons of rice, barrels of tallow, hemp, jute, sugar and bales of cotton were destroyed. The fire burned for two days and nights. From Old and New London: A Narrative of Its History, Its People, And Its Places. The Southern Suburbs, Volume VI, by Edward Walford. [Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., London, Paris & New York, c1878]