Firefighting and fire prevention

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Fire brigades and their equipment

• The Edinburgh Fire Brigade, 1837-70
• The Edinburgh Fire Brigade, 1870-1900
• Pump wagon (1824) in Lauriston Yard, Edinburgh

Fire stations

• Lauriston Place Fire Station, Edinburgh
• Fire Station, Police Station, and Library, Woodhouse Lane, Leeds
• Fire Station in St Andrewgate, York
• Central Fire Station (1909), 62 Hill Street, Singapore

Fires

• Great Fire in Oxford Street

Fire Insurance

• Plaques on houses insured against fire, in York

Bibliography

Fyfe, Paul. By Accident or Design: Writing the Victorian Metropolis. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.

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