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Edinburgh Fire Brigade on call out with 2 horse engine
Unknown, 1913, Photograph
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Edinburgh Fire Brigade on call out with 2 horse engine
Edinburgh Fire Brigade on call out with 2 horse engine
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21260
Title
Edinburgh Fire Brigade on call out with 2 horse engine
Description
A two horse-drawn fire appliance gallops down Lauriston Place, Edinburgh. Three firemen wearing Merryweather helmets stand on top. The man in the middle is holding the reins and a long whip. Women hang out of a window of a tenement above David Clark, wine and spirit merchants. Below them a crowd has gathered on the corner beside a lamp post. A policeman stands in front of the crowd.
Artist / maker
Unknown
Date
1913
Size
21.4 x 19.0 cm
Type
Photograph
This image is from the collections of the
Museum of Scottish Fire Heritage
, formerly the Museum of Fire at Lauriston Place.
David Clark, Wine and Spirit Merchant, first appears in the Post Office Directories in 1911 at 80 Lauriston Place.
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Whose Town? Arthur Pordage
Museum of Fire Collections
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