Flames Across the Tyne

128pp, with numerous colour and black and white illustrations throughout.  In red cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on spine. Illustrated endpapers. 4to. Boards just a tad faded on extreme edges, gently brushed at spine ends.  Internally clean, neat, bright and tight.  In its original, illustrated, matte dust jacket, worn, chapped at edges, moderately faded with scattered small scars and marks on verso and old tape repairs around upper corners.  More than a simple history of a fire brigade, this volume offers a genuine insight into the often misunderstood task of fire-fighting.  From the days in which some firemen refused to work without a supply of beer and with accounts of notable fires such as the Great Fire and Explosion in Gateshead in 1854 and the Cross House Fire, the history of the service is traced to the late 20th century.  An unusually but elegantly designed volume with eye-catching illustrations,