| Description | Showing John Bristow, engine-maker to all HM forts, garrisons etc, at his manufactories in Ratcliff Highway and Cloth-fair near Aldgate Street (late Newsham and Rags): engines for extinguishing fire or watering gardens. With illustration of a fire engine, shewing 'part of the ruins of the late dreadful fire.....in Cornhill, 25 Mar 1748'-near St Michael's Church. |