PROPOSAL TO ESTABLISH "THE LEICESTERSHIRE FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY.". Leicestershire Fire Insurance Company. Patrons. The Right Hon. The Earl Howe, Sir George H. W. Beaumont, Bart... Capital, £200,000. In Four Thousand Shares of £50. each....1834

Leicester: T. Combe, Junior, Folio (375 x 250 mm), 2 conjugate leaves print on 3 sides only, at some time folded, a couple of small closed tears otherwise very good. "It is proposed to establish a Company, to be called "The Leicestershire Fire Insurance Company," which shall have for its object the grating Policies of Insurance from loss by Fire, in any part of Great Britain, though it is not disguised that the support mainly looked for in the first instance is that of the County of Leicester and the adjacent districts." Phoenix House, located at the bottom of New Walk, is the oldest surviving fire station in Leicester. It was built in 1842 for the Leicestershire Fire Insurance Company. It was designed by William Flint in the Greek Revival style of architecture, complete with fluted Ionic columns flanking a central entrance. In 1843 the Leicestershire company was bought out by the Sun Fire Insurance, who based their fire brigade at the building. Not found on JISC.