Horticulture Building (Toronto) 1907 and was designed by local architect G. W. Gouinlock in the Beaux-Arts style. It is a one-storey building, in the layout of an "E", with a large glass dome at the intersection of the wings. The glass dome is the site of the main entrance facing south. The wings extend to the east and west to the north. The site was previously the location of Toronto's Crystal Palace building, an exhibition hall fashioned after the design of the Crystal Palace in London, England. Toronto's Crystal Palace was destroyed by fire on October 18, 1906, spread by sparks from a
London Fire Brigade London Fire Brigade The London Fire Brigade (LFB) is the statutory fire and rescue service for London. It was formed by the Metropolitan Fire Brigade Act of 1865, under the leadership of superintendent Eyre Massey Shaw. It is the second-largest of all the fire services in the United Kingdom, after the national Scottish Fire and Rescue Service and the fifth-largest in the world, after the Tokyo Fire Department, New York City Fire Department, Paris Fire Brigade and the Scottish service, with 5,992 staff, including 5,096 operational firefighters and officers based at 102 fire stations (plus one river station). Dany Cotton