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C1878
Torchlight Procession of the Fire Brigades.
Artist:
Scarce c.19th hand coloured engraving of the torchlight procession of the fire brigades. From the original edition of the Australasian Sketcher. Collections: National Library Australia: Bib ID 914558 State Library New South Wales: REF1/MAV/FM4/9236-9239 State Library Victoria: PCINF AS 06-09-73 P.104 … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Torchlight Procession of the Fire Brigades.
Date:
C1878
Artist:
Condition:
In good condition.
Technique:
Hand coloured engraving.
Image Size:
221mm
x 174mm
Paper Size:
260mm
x 200mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1878
Description:
Scarce c.19th hand coloured engraving of the torchlight procession of the fire brigades.
From the original edition of the Australasian Sketcher.
Collections:
National Library Australia: Bib ID 914558
State Library New South Wales: REF1/MAV/FM4/9236-9239
State Library Victoria: PCINF AS 06-09-73 P.104
FIRE BRIGADES’ TORCHLIGHT PROCESSION. For a long series of years the annual gathering of the united fire brigades has formed one of the principal Queen’s Birthday events of this colony. The locality in which it is held is changed every year, and as several years elapse before any one place is re-visited, the demonstration returns to the selected district with the freshness of a novelty. This year Melbourne is again the rendezvous, and the central committee have been using every effort to ensure success for the undertaking, and to make the event reflect credit on the metropolis. In accordance with the arrangements of the Railway department the up-country brigades forwarded their engines, hose-reels, and other apparatus to Spencer-street station on Monday, May 20, and followed them selves on Wednesday and Thursday. The greater majority of them arrived on Thursday by special trains from Sandhurst and Ballarat, and marched through the principal streets with their bands playing and banners flying. Amongst those who arrived by the afternoon train were the Ballarat East, who with their fife band proceeded to the Carlton Brewery, where they were hospitably entertained.
A large number of people desirous of witnessing the demonstration also arrived from the country by the afternoon trains. As the day progressed the suburban brigades swelled the gathering, and in the evening the city, with hundreds of firemen in uniform, and other visitors crowding the streets, assumed a very animated appearance. The attendance, as indicated by the returns, was as follows : Brigades represented, 44; officers, 187; men, 796; musicians, 355; engines, 9; and hose reels, 42. At 6 o’clock most of the brigades were, paraded at various places, and towards, 7o’clock they began to concentrate at Spencer-street for the performance of the usual opening ceremony —the grand torchlight procession. The inhabitants of Melbourne and suburbs are not altogether unfamiliar with torchlight pro cessions, but it is only once in four or five years that they witness such a spectacle as that of May 23.
