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Google Map interface; 1852 Dublin Street Directory Map showing the boundaries of several wards Size: 40.5 cm x 28 cm. Scale: 4 and one-eighth inches to one statute mile. General Post Office Directory. Colour map Flickr photo; 1863 Dublin showing the Boundaries of several Wards. Engraved for the General Post Office. Published by Alex Thom, 87 ...
1702 – State Paper Office established in Dublin Castle. 1707 – Marsh's Library incorporated. [1]1707 - The original Custom House opens on Custom House Quay, Dublin.; 1708 – The Registry of Deeds is established by an Irish Act of Parliament entitled "An Act for the Publick Registering of all Deeds, Conveyances and Wills that shall be made of any Honors, Manors, Lands, Tenements or ...
1871: October 8 – 10, the Great Chicago Fire. [6] [11] 1872 Montgomery Ward in business. Establishment of the first Black fire company in the city. The original library, inside the old water tower on the site that is now the Rookery Building. This former water tower was the site of the original public library, exterior view
According to an 1888 Chicago Tribune article, at the time no other engine company in the city had a better record of responding to fires. [4] In drills the full team could go from men upstairs and horses in stalls to a fully-hitched and mounted rig in 11 seconds; the team's typical time in practice was 14 or 15 seconds in daytime, 25 or 26 at ...
Image of 'Official Tourist Guide of the Dublin, Wicklow, and Wexford Railway. Date: 1895: Source: Image taken from page 21 of 'Official Tourist Guide of the Dublin, Wicklow, and Wexford Railway. Illustrated. Compiled by A. T. Hennessy'
Fire Queen: 1892: 1905: Built to fight fires on the site of the 1893 Chicago's World's Fair. [1] Turned over to the city when the fair closed. [1] Illinois: 1899: Chicago's first fireboat with a steel hull, instead of a wooden hull. [1] Sank during the Burlington Grain elevator fire, but was quickly refloated and put back into service. [4 ...
The Dublin and South Eastern Railway started out in 1846 as the Waterford, Wexford, Wicklow and Dublin Railway Company. In 1853 it was renamed the Dublin and Wicklow Railway Company , and in 1860 it was renamed the Dublin, Wicklow and Wexford Railway Company and on 31 December 1906 it was renamed again as the Dublin and South Eastern.
12 March – The 45th Company of the Imperial Yeomanry left Dublin for service in South Africa. 17 March – In celebration of Saint Patrick's Day, the Lord Lieutenant (Earl Cadogan), accompanied by his staff, reviewed a military display in the yard of Dublin Castle, followed by dinner and a ball in Saint Patrick's Hall that evening.