International records / UK National Archives

Photograph of a kerosene fire on Government Wharf at [Freetown], Sierra Leone

GB1752.UAC/1/11/9/12/149 | UAC Public Relations Department.UAC Public Relations Department: Photograph Albums.UAC Public Relations Department: Nigeria, Ghana and Sierra Leone Album. | In the foreground a large crowd of people is gathered in a roadway, surrounded by and standing on crates, boxes and sacks. In the centre of the image, further crowds are gathered in the road, as African men carry boxes and sacks up a hill where they are piled. On either side of the road and at the top of the hill, built at a right angle to the road, are European buildings. [The fire istaking place to the right of…