A FIRE-FIGHTING

HISTORY

A CIBSE HERITAGE GROUP ELECTRONIC BOOK

A FIRE-FIGHTING HISTORY

Fire at Covent Garden, London, 1808 [TP, plate 28]

A FIRE-FIGHTING HISTORY

Compiled by

BRIAN ROBERTS Chairman, CIBSE Heritage Group

A FIRE-FIGHTING HISTORY

Origins of Fire

CONTENTS

REFERENCES FIREFIGHTING HISTORY chapter 9 of the book by Billington & Roberts 1982 GREAT FIRES Cities Buildings FIRE INSURANCE Companies Firemarks Fire Offices Documents FIRE BRIGADES & ENGINES FIRE EXTINGUISHERS Hand Apparatus Grenades FIRE FIGHTING EQUIPMENT Early Days Alarms & Hydrants Escapes Ventilation FIREPROOF BUILDINGS Floors 1800-60 Buildings FIRE REGULATIONS- HVAC (USA) 1937 FIRE SPRINKLERS History 1723-1930 Pioneers

FIRE FIGHTING & FIRE PROTECTION These are arranged in alphabetical order of the code reference letters [in square brackets] which precede the detailed reference information, the code being used in the text and to indicate the picture source when included with an illustration caption.

References [AIR] The Archaeology of the Industrial Revolution, Brian Bracegirdle, Heinemann, London, 1973. [AFV] Automatic Fire Ventilation, Colt Ventilation & Heating, Surbiton, undated (c.1964). [BSE] Building Services Engineering: A Review of its Development, (Chapter 9: Firefighting), Neville S Billington & Brian M Roberts, Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1982. [CH] Courage High (A History of Firefighting in London), Sally Holloway, HMSO, London, 1992 [DRM] De Re Metallica, Georgius Agricola , 1556; translated by H C & L H Hoover, Dover Publications, New York, 1950 (from the 1912 Mining Magazine, London).. [ECP] Essex Copper Plate, Henry Halls, privately printed, 1968. [FAU] The Fire at Uppark, Adam Nicolson, The National Trust, Toucan Books, London, 1990. [FE] Firefighting Equipment, Brian Wright, Shire Album 232, Aylesbury, 1989. [FFA] Fire Fighting Appliances, K R Gilbert, Catalogue of the Collection, Science Museum, London, HMSO, London, 1969. [FFEF] Fire Engines and Fire-Fighting, David Burgess-Wise, Octopus Books, London, 1977. [FIWP] Fire Insurance Wall Plaques, Rowland G M Baker, Walton & Weybridge Local History Society, 1970.

[FM] Fire Marks, John Vince, Shire Album 2, Aylesbury, 1973. [FOA] Footprints of Assurance, Alwin E Bulae, The Macmillan Company, New York, 1953. [GAFV] Guide to Automatic Fire Ventilation, Colt International, Havant, February 1987. [GCF] The Great Chicago Fire, David Lowe, Dover Publications, New York, 1979. [GFL] The Great Fire of London, Gustav Milne, Historical Publications, New Barnet, 1986. [GFT] The Ghent Fire Tests, Colt International, Havant, 1990. [HBR] The History of Building Regulation in London 1189-1972, C C Knowles & P H Pitt, Architectural Press, London, 1972. [HC] Home Comfort: A History of Domestic Arrangements, Christina Hardyment, Viking, London, 1992. [HFF] History of Fire Fighting, John L Kirk (Ed), Castle Museum, York, 1960. [HFV] The History of Fire Ventilation, Jerome O’Hea, Building Services Centenary Supplement, pp. 39-40, October 1997. [HNAT] How Now –And Then (The Story of How Group), Nigel Watson, James & James, London, 1997. [HRFP] High Rise Fire Protection –An Historical Perspective, Richard C Schulte, Plumbing Engineer, USA, March 1997. [HSD] A History of Sprinkler Development, Ron Heggs, AMEC, Fire Engineering, London, 2001. [LFB] London’s Fire Brigades, W Eric Jackson, Longmans Green, London, 1966. [LNBF] London’s Noble Fire Brigades, 1833-1904, Sally Holloway, Cassell, London, 1973. [IHVE] IHVE Guide, Book B, Section B5: Fire Protection Systems, London, 1970. [NBS27] A Short History of the Structural Fire Protection of Buildings, National Building Studies, Special Report No. 27, HMSO, London, 1958.

[NFBU90] Air Conditioning, Warm Air Heating, Air Cooling and Ventilating Systems, Regulations of the National Board of Fire Underwriters, Pamphlet No. 90, New York, 15 July 1937. [NYB] New York’s Bravest; Eight Decades of Photographs…, Shawn O’Sullivan (Ed) & Patrice O’ Shaughnessy, powerHouse Cultural Entertainment, New York, 2002. [PBC] Pyne’s British Costumes, William H Pyne (facsimile edition of the 18th century original), Wordsworth Editions, Ware, 1898. [QC] The Quest for Comfort (CIBSE Centenary), Brian Roberts, Fire Protection, pp.96-99 & plate VI, IMI Waterheating, 1997. [STL] The Sky’s the Limit (A History of the Colt Group), Nigel Watson, James & James, London, 1997. [TP] Things Phoenix 1782-1982, K B Croker, Phoenix Assurance, London, 1982. [VBGI] Vulcan 1859-1959 (The History of One Hundred Years of Engineering and Insurance), W H Chaloner, Vulcan Boiler & General Insurance, 1959. [VI] Victorian Inventions, Leonard de Vries, John Murray, London, 1973. [VSEP] Victorian Science and Engineering Portrayed (In the Illustrated London News), Kenneth Chew & Anthony Wilson, Alan Sutton, Stroud, 1993.