In England the Great fire of Newcastle and Gateshead leads to 53 deaths and hundreds injured.

Great fire of Newcastle and Gateshead

1854 series of fires and an explosion in Tyne and Wear, England

The great fire of Gateshead and Newcastle was a tragic and spectacular series of events starting on Friday 6 October 1854, in which a substantial amount of property in two North East England towns was destroyed in a series of fires and an explosion which killed 53 and injured…