Fire Marks

Around Chester there are still a few surviving fire marks, which were issued by insurance companies. For most of the 18th century, each insurance company maintained its own fire brigade, which extinguished fires in those buildings insured by the company and, in return for a fee to be paid later, in buildings insured by other companies. By 1825, fire marks served more as advertisements than as useful identifying marks; some insurance companies no longer issued fire marks, and those that did sometimes left them up after a policy had expired. This one is on a house in Abbey Square, and was issued by the Sun Assurance Company.

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