LONDON FIRE JOURNAL British Fire History

The LONDON FIRE JOURNAL marked it 20th Anniversary in 2025 and underwent a major update, revision and general housecleaning dating back to o...

  Photo : Wimbledon Fire Station Fire gutted the Woolworth's store on Wimbledon's Broadway on April 30, 1981, killing London f irefi...

  Snakehips Johnson By Vinny Del Giudice London Fire Journal On March 18, 1941, German bombs crashed through a ventilation shaft in a "...

Photos : UK government accident investigation files A gruesome jetliner inferno at Manchester Airport led to global safety reforms, includin...

Photo : London Fire Brigade Senior officers assess fire conditions at Chelsea Hospital on May 12, 1976.  Twelve pumps and two turntable ladd...

The Great Fire of Leeds broke out on July 25, 1906  at  the Hotham & Whiting warehouse at the Wellington Street and Thirsk Row. " “...

On April 23, 1921, flames devoured the  C.T. Skeltons Tool Manufacturers plant at the Sheaf Bank Works in Sheffield. Skeltons was one of the...

Photo : British Pathe On May 17, 1938, a Circle Line train rammed a District Line train at London's Charing Cross underground station, c...

Photos : BBC, Metropolitan Police  Thirty-one people died when two commuter trains collided in a fiery wreck on Oct. 5, 1999 near London...

Photo : BBC On Dec. 12, 1988, Clapham Junction was the scene of a railway accident involving two collisions between three commuter trains. T...

Photos : Wikipedia The London Fire Brigade responded to the deadly sinking of the party boat Marchioness on the Thames that killed 51 people...

Photo : City of London Police 1993 at Bishopsgate,  1974 at Parliament and Tower of London, 1973 at old Bailey and 1983 at the Harrod's ...

On Nov. 19, 1897, flames ripped across 100 buildings in Cripplegate, putting thousands of people out of work.  The fire broke out in "a...

Photo : BBC   On Dec. 15, 2003, a 12-pump fire ripped through the Tiffin Girls School in Kingston in southwest London. There were no injurie...

"More than 150 firefighters battled through the night as a huge blaze engulfed one of Oxford Street's busiest stores. Hundreds of s...

Photo : BBC On Sept. 26, 2002, firefighters extinguished a fire that engulfed two buildings in London's West End - and threatened to spr...

  A  bird, a cat, a monkey, three dogs - and 11 London firefighters in late 1800s or early 1900s. Quite the managarie. 

  Illustration :  The Fireman's Own Book by George P. Little, 1860 On May 27, 1845, fire swept Raggett's - a popular hotel in Piccad...

Photo : Liverpool Ambulance On June 22, 1960, fire destroyed Henderson's department store in Liverpool, claiming 11 lives. The blaze led...

Memorial mural at  Whitechapel Fire Station Photo : BBC On July 20, 2004, Whitechapel station firefighters Bill Faust and Adam Meere died in...

  Fire at Royal Princess's Theatre, 73 Oxford Street in London, in 1829. It was rebuilt.

On May 6, 1913, fire gutted St. Catherine's Church in London and contemporary reports suggested the fire was set by suffragettes.  The s...

Photo : Wiki Commons Queen Elizabeth II meeting London Fire Brigade members who responded to 1974's wave of IRA bombings.

The Luftwaffe dropped thousands of bombs on  London  from 1939 to 1945, killing almost 30,000 people and demolishing more than  than 70,000 ...

Photos : Institution of Fire Engineers Firefighters from London's old Clerkenwell fire station paid dearly in life and flesh at ...

On April 21, 1902, fire erupted at MacQueen's hat factory in the Barbican and wind-whipped flames gutted adjacent buildings. "Three...

" The most serious fire which has as yet taken place in the network of the tube railways under London broke out recently about 25 yds...

On Oct. 6, 1854, a fire and explosion ravaged the neighboring towns of Gateshead and Newcastle upon Tyne, killing 53 people and cau...

Photo : Manchester Fire and Rescue Service Drought led to an outbreak of grass fires from Manchester to London during the summer of 2018...

Grenfell Tower disaster, June 14, 2017 - 72 dead, 70 injured, 223 escaped David Badillo, front, and watch manager Michael Dowden at G...