Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire for the Year ..., Volumen78Society, 1927 Pedigrees and arms of various families of Lancashire and Cheshire are included in many of the volumes. |
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Página 11 - The summon'd firemen woke at call, And hied them to their stations all ; Starting from short and broken snooze, Each sought his pond'rous...
Página 11 - Each sought his pond'rous hobnail'd shoes, But first his worsted hosen plied, Plush breeches next, in crimson dyed, His nether bulk embraced ; Then jacket thick, of red or blue, Whose massy shoulder gave to view The badge of each respective crew, In tin or copper traced. The engines...
Página 9 - An humming through their waxen city grows, And out upon each other's wings they drive. Now streets grow thronged and busy as by day; Some run for buckets to the hallowed quire ; Some cut the pipes, and some the engines play, And some more bold mount ladders to the fire.
Página 10 - The helpless infant through the flame he bears, With no less virtue, than through hostile fire The Dardan hero bore his aged sire. See, forceful engines spout their levell'd streams, To quench the blaze that runs along the beams ; The grappling hook plucks rafters from the walls, And heaps on heaps the...
Página 9 - I will set before your eyes a type of a ' squirt' which hath been devised to cast much water upon a burning house, wishing a like squirt and plenty of water to be alwau-s in a readinesse where fire may do harme; for this kind of squirt may be made to holde an hoggeshed of water, or if you will, a greater quantity thereof, and may be so placed on his frame, that with ease and a smal strength, it...
Página 19 - A much heavier burden of glories than thine. And 'tis plain, when a wealthy young lady so mad is, Or any young ladies can so go astray, As to marry old Dandies that might be their daddies, The...
Página 11 - ... the street, Fire-hook, pipe, bucket, all complete, And torches glared, and clattering feet Along the pavement paced. And one, the leader of the band, From Charing Cross along the Strand, Like stag by beagles hunted hard, Ran till he stopp'd at Vin'gar Yard.
Página xxiii - Architectural and Archaeological Society. Kent Archaeological Society. Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society. Leicestershire Archaeological Society. Architectural and Archaeological Society of Lincoln and Notts. London and Middlesex Archaeological Society. Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle-on-Tyne.
Página xi - NB — It is requested that notice be given to the Secretary of any error, omission^ change of address, resignation or death.
Página 9 - ... like squirt and plenty of water to be alwaies in a readinesse where fire may do harme ; for this kind of squirt may be made to holde an hoggeshed of water, or if you will, a greater quantity thereof, and may be so placed on his frame, that with ease and a smal strength, it sahl be mounted, imbased or turned to any one side, right against any fired marke, and made to squirt out the water upon the fire that is to be quenched.