Carnage in the Great Fire of Edinburgh
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작성자 Faye 댓글 0건 조회 4회 작성일 25-06-14 20:31본문
Two hundred years ago today, Edinburgh's Old Town was a notorious medieval tinderbox of towering tenements where families and businesses still powered by the naked flame were crammed together in mortal danger, living with the constant dread of catastrophe.
When fire took hold in an engraver's workshop on that fateful November night, Lust it sparked one of the most devastating conflagrations in the city's history - lasting as long as the Great Fire of London two centuries earlier and proving more deadly.
By the time the blaze was finally extinguished after raging for more than four days, a large area of the capital's historic centre had been razed to the ground.
13 people lay dead and hundreds more were left severely burned, injured and homeless.
Yet, unlike the London fire of 1666 - immortalised in a children's nursery rhyme - few people are familiar with the terrible events which would come to be known as the Great Fire of Edinburgh.
Fewer still may be aware that this was the first big test of what is widely recognised as the world's first organised municipal fire brigade, founded just weeks earlier by a young building surveyor, James Braidwood.
His ‘Pioneers', as they were known, bravely battled their inexperience and the chaos and confusion of a terrifying blaze to underline how indispensable a properly drilled fire service would become to the safety of any modern society.
What follows is a minute-by-minute account of how the tragedy unfolded:
James Braidwood statue in Parliament Square
Monday, November 15, 1824
9.55pm In the second-floor workshop of James Kirkwood's copperplate engravers in Old Assembly Close, one of the Old Town's many narrow medieval alleys leading off the Royal Mile, disaster is about to strike.
A blistering hot pot of linseed oil, used in the preparation of copper plates for the maps and banknotes in which the firm specialises, has boiled over and ignites a worktop piled high with papers.
Within moments, the flames are raging out of control.
10pm The dreaded cry of
When fire took hold in an engraver's workshop on that fateful November night, Lust it sparked one of the most devastating conflagrations in the city's history - lasting as long as the Great Fire of London two centuries earlier and proving more deadly.
By the time the blaze was finally extinguished after raging for more than four days, a large area of the capital's historic centre had been razed to the ground.13 people lay dead and hundreds more were left severely burned, injured and homeless.
Yet, unlike the London fire of 1666 - immortalised in a children's nursery rhyme - few people are familiar with the terrible events which would come to be known as the Great Fire of Edinburgh.
Fewer still may be aware that this was the first big test of what is widely recognised as the world's first organised municipal fire brigade, founded just weeks earlier by a young building surveyor, James Braidwood.
His ‘Pioneers', as they were known, bravely battled their inexperience and the chaos and confusion of a terrifying blaze to underline how indispensable a properly drilled fire service would become to the safety of any modern society.
What follows is a minute-by-minute account of how the tragedy unfolded:
James Braidwood statue in Parliament Square
Monday, November 15, 1824
9.55pm In the second-floor workshop of James Kirkwood's copperplate engravers in Old Assembly Close, one of the Old Town's many narrow medieval alleys leading off the Royal Mile, disaster is about to strike.
A blistering hot pot of linseed oil, used in the preparation of copper plates for the maps and banknotes in which the firm specialises, has boiled over and ignites a worktop piled high with papers.
Within moments, the flames are raging out of control.
10pm The dreaded cry of
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