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<\/a>Fire Squirt Great Fire Of London<\/p><\/div>\n
Under Queen Anne in 1707, the English Parliament passed a law requiring all parishes in London to have and maintain a large engine and a hand engine, along with a leather pipe to convey the water into the engine without the need for a bucket. However this law only extended to London and not any other cities under British rule.<\/p>\n
In October 1714 a decision was made by Cork Corporation to purchase a large fire engine from Holland. At the time the Dutch fire engineer Jan van der Heiden was the leader in fire fighting technology.<\/p>\n
The Dublin parliament brought in the first fire prevention legislation for all of Ireland in 1715. A second act in 1719 specified the type of equipment. \u2018One large engine and one small engine\u2019 and also that \u2018each parish shall provide, keep and maintain one leather pipe and jacket as the same size as the plug or fire cock\u2019<\/p>\n
Leather hoses for the fire engines were provided by local tradesmen. The first fire engine \u00a0in Cork was kept in the \u2018corporation yard on the Marsh\u2019 where St Paul\u2019s churchyard was located (current side entrance to Cornmarket Street shopping centre)<\/p>\n
The vestries of the Established Church parishes responsible for maintaining the parish pump. Each Protestant church in the city had it\u2019s quota of fire engines.<\/p>\n
Christ Church is credited with having the largest and most powerful engine in Cork.<\/p>\n
<\/a>Hadley,Simkin and Lott – detail of large manual fire engine<\/p><\/div>\n
This was known as a ‘No 6 Engine’, and was capable of pumping 170 litres of water per minute \u00a0(about 1\/4 the capacity of a standard modern fire engine). \u00a0They were quite expensive, \u00a0about \u00a370, which could have bought a modest house at the time. It may very well have been built by one Nicholas Fitton, who operated a foundry in nearby Tuckey’s Quay, and who made fire engines as a sideline<\/p>\n