Liverpool Mercury Friday 3 March 1871 LOCAL NEWS: FIRE IN THE QUEEN'S ARCADE - Shortly before five o'clock yesterday morning smoke was seen issuing from a window in the second story of the shop occupied by Mr. Charles Brickland, fishmonger, Queen's Arcade, off Lime-street. " Word" was passed to the different fire stations, and an engine from Hatton-garden, with the salvage corps, the West of England fire brigade, and a reel from Seel-street, were quickly on the spot. Two branches were got into play, and before long the fire was extinguished. Mr. Brickland states that when he left the premises on the previous evening everything was right, but a man and boy were left papering and whitewashing a room above. The only injury to the stock was from water.

He is mentioned on the gravestone of his parents who are buried at Overleigh Old Cemetery, Chester. The gravestone reads:

IN MEMORY OF
THOMAS
SON OF JOSEPH AND EMMA BRICKLAND
WHO DIED DECEMBER 26TH 1854
AGED 3 WEEKS

ALSO OF
JOHN WAINWRIGHT
SON-IN-LAW OF THE ABOVE WHO DIED
JUNE 19TH 1870, AGED 33 YEARS
THE MEMORY OF THE JUST IS BLESSED

ALSO OF
CHARLES SON OF THE ABOVE,
WHO DIED SEPTEMBER 8TH 1876,
AGED 42 YEARS
INTERRED IN LIVERPOOL
BLESSED ARE THE DEAD WHICH DIE IN THE LORD

ALSO OF THE ABOVE NAMED
EMMA BRICKLAND
WHO DIED JANUARY 2ND 1879
AGED 64 YEARS.
A LIGHT IS FROM OUR HOUSEHOLD GONE
THE VOICE WE LOVED IS STILLED
A PLACE IS VACANT IN OUR HOME
WHICH NEVER CAN BE FILLED.
SHE FELL ASLEEP IN JESUS

ALSO OF JOSEPH BRICKLAND,
HUSBAND OF THE ABOVE
WHO DIED JUNE 23RD 1881
AGED 67 YEARS
OUR FATHER'S GONE AND WE ARE LEFT
THE LOSS OF HIM TO MORN;
BUT MAY WE MEET WITH HIM AGAIN,
WITH CHRIST, BEFORE GOD'S THRONE

ALSO OF ANN WAINWRIGHT
WIFE OF THE ABOVE
WHO DIED DECEMBER 10TH 1913
AGED 72 YEARS

ALSO OF ELIZABETH,
THE BELOVED WIFE OF JOHN WIGGINS,
WHO DIED NOVEMBER 1ST 1918,
AGED 62 YEARS