Notices of the Most Remarkable Fires in Edinburgh, from 1385 to 1824: Including an Account of the Great Fire of November, 1824 |
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adjoining alarming fire broke appearance appre Baillie Blackfriars Board of Ordnance bourhood brunt burgh burning burnt calamity Canongate Canonmills Carrubber's Close Castle city-guard conflagration Courant Office Court of Session Covenant Cowgate crowd damage destroyed destructive fires dreadful fire east side edifice Edin eleven o'clock eleven storeys engines entirely consumed exertions fell fire occurred fire was discovered fire-engines firemen FIRES IN EDINBURGH flames raged fourth flat front furniture gable head High Street immediately James Kirkheugh lands of six Leith liament Square little heaven Lord Provost Magistrates ment Close Messrs morning neighbouring Netherbow Port North Bridge north side occasion Old Assembly Close Parlia Parliament Close Parliament House Parliament Square pile of building poor present printing-house REMARKABLE FIRES ROBERT CHAMBERS roof ruin scene Scotland Scots set fire Showers spread Stairs steeple storeys in height suffered terrible third flat tion Tron Church wall West Bow whole wind Wynd