FIFTY YEARS OF FIRE FIGHTING IN LONDON
Written by Jack While, Edgar Wallace
Published by Hutchinson & Co. Ltd
in 1931
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- TOPOGRAPHY (UK)
- LONDON
- SOUTH EAST UK
- FIRE SERVICE
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FIFTY YEARS OF FIRE FIGHTING IN LONDON
Written by Jack While, Edgar Wallace.
Stock no. 2134063
1931.
Hardback.
Good condition.
Blue cloth with gilt title to spine. Jack While was an unofficial Recorder of the London Fire Brigade. Foreword by Wallace. B/w illustrations. Ex-lib. with some markings and stamps. Heavy wear to covers; uneven fading, some scuffing and some fraying to cloth. Foxing.
Front cover
Contents
- Preface
- List of Illustrations
- Foreword
- Author's Acknowledgements
- CHAPTER I
- An Old Street Scene...
- CHAPTER II
- The Site of Southwark Headquarters...
- CHAPTER III
- The Burning of the Alhambra....
- CHAPTER IV
- After Captain Shaw
- CHAPTER V
- Fire Protection and General Fire Brigade Works...
- CHAPTER VI
- When the Fire Insurance Offices "Struck"...
- CHAPTER VII
- Heartbeats at Big Fires...
- CHAPTER VIII
- When the Earl of Egmont Joined Up...
- CHAPTER IX
- Air Raid Work of the Fire Brigade...
- CHAPTER X
- The Fire-Raisers in our Midst...
- CHAPTER XI
- A Gang of South London Malefactors
- CHAPTER XII
- Questions of Insurance
- CHAPTER XIII
- And Last - An Amazing London Spectacle