Conflagration Collection

Emperor Nero watches Rome burn, whilst playing his Lyre
Roman Emperor Nero watches Rome burn from the Tower of Maecenas on the Esquiline Hill, whilst singing and playing the lyre. Painting by Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846-1916). Polish Artist Date: 64 AD

The Fall of the German airship L-21 by Fortunino Matania, WW1
The destruction of the German Zeppelin L-21 over Cuffley, Hertfordshire after being shot down by Lieut. William Leefe Robinson on the night of 2nd/3rd September 1916

MUSSOLINI SAVES EUROPE
Mussolini returns from Munich to be applauded as the salvatore della pace who has saved Europe from imminent conflagration. Date: 1938

Great Fire of Newcastle and Gateshead
A view over Newcastle (on the far side of the River Tyne) and Gateshead (in the foreground) during the great fire which killed more than 50 people and destroyed many buildings

Napoleon Bonaparte watching the Fire of Moscow, 1812
Napoleon Bonaparte watching the Fire of Moscow after the Battle of Borodino, 1812. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Cruikshank from The Life of Napoleon a Hudibrastic Poem by Doctor

Fire at Inverary (Inveraray) Castle
Destructive fire at Inverary (Inveraray) Castle, the ancestral seat of the Duke of Argyll. Valuable paintings, furniture and books were saved though some were water-damaged

Alhambra Theatre, Leicester Square, destroyed by fire 1882
Cover of the Illustrated London News, 16th December 1882, showing the destruction of the Alhambra Theatre in Londons Leicester Square by fire on 7th December 1882. 1882

The conflagration, Mexico -- firefighters at work. Date: circa 1900s

Hamburg fire 1842
View of the fire at Hamburg from the Alster in May 1842. Also the very first engraving in the first issue of the Illustrated London News, 14th May 1842. Date: May 1842

Early fire brigade - hand in hand insurance company
An engraving of men from the Hand in Hand Insurance Company. Before the establishment of regional fire brigades, fires were tackled by insurance companies

The Ratcliffe Fire - Mr Beres House miraculously saved
The Ratcliffe Fire was the largest fire disaster in London between the Great Fire of 1666 and the Blitz in 1940. The fire took place in July 1794 when a smaller fire ignited a barge loaded with

Damage to the Waterfront Buildings, Thessaloniki, Greece, possibly due to the Great Fire that raged between 18th-19th August 1917. Date: circa 1917

Large Fire at Istanbul, Turkey Date: 1923

Thessaloniki aflame - 1917
A view of the Great Fire at Salonica, Greece, that raged between 18th-19th August 1917. In 32 hours 9500 houses were destroyed.which left more than 70000 people homeless

Homeless citizens assess damge to property - Thessaloniki. The Great Fire at Salonica, Greece, raged between 18th-19th August 1917

The Great Fire at Istanbul - 23rd August, 1908. Date: 1908

A view of the Presidents house in the city of Washington after the conflagration of the 24th August 1814. View from northeast of fire-damaged White House. Date 1814

View of the great conflagration

A view of the Capitol after the conflagration of the 24th August 1814. Print shows a view from southeast of fire-damaged U.S. Capitol building. Date 1814

Fire near Nine Elms, Battersea
Crowds of spectators watch a conflagration near Nine Elms, Battersea, from across the River Thames at Vauxhall Bridge, while a fire engine rushes by to try to help stop the blaze. Date: 1847

Fire on the Westminster Road, London
Spectators on Waterloo Bridge watching the fire that had broken out on the premises of Messrs. Maudslay and Field, the engineers, in the Westminster Road, London

Steam Boat Lexington Fire
Awful Conflagration of the Steam Boat Lexington in Long Island Sound on Monday Evening, January 13th 1840, by which melancholy occurrence, over 100 Persons Perished. Date: January 13th 1840

Silhouette, The Fat is in the Fire
The Fat is in the Fire -- silhouette of a conflagration

Fire at the Michaeliskirche, Hamburg, Germany
A terrible fire which engulfed the spire of the Michaeliskirche at Hamburg, Germany on 3rd July, 1906. The fire lasted for three hours, ten minutes. Date: 1906

Damage caused by fire at Selby Abbey
The damage caused by a fire at Selby Abbey, North Yorkshire on October 20th, 1906. The conflagration was of such intensity that it melted the bells in the central tower. Date: 1906

Izmir, Turkey - Great Fire
Following the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in World War I, the Greek Army occupied Izmir, but the Greek expedition towards central Anatolia turned into a disaster for both that country

Naptha fire at Sourakhani, Baku - Azerbaijan
A Naptha (a term which refers to flammable liquid mixtures of hydrocarbons) fire at Sourakhani, Baku - Azerbaijan

Burning of Pantechnicon
The burning of the Pantechnicon in Motcomb Street, Belgravia: scenes of the fire which devastated the building

the fires that spread across the city of San Francisco from
The conflagration which swept across the city from the harbour shore. The San Francisco earthquake occurred on the 18th April 1906 and measured 7.9 on the Richter scale

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