Friends of Islington Museum

Category: Islington Burning

  • Islington’s Burning

    London has had a turbulent and fiery history! It has been burned to the ground many times over in its 2000 year history and yet the London Fire Brigade (LFB) was only formed in 1866. From the destruction of St. John’s Priory, Clerkenwell in 1381, the impact of the Great…