LONDON FIRE JOURNAL British Fire History

"POWERFUL JETS OF WATER discharged from many hoses were played on a big fire in an oils and colours warehouse at Southwark, London, f...

Photo : BBC UPDATED OCTOBER 2011 In early August 2011, the London Fire Brigade contended with rioting that started in Tottenham and spread ...

Photo from archives of Daily Mirror showing London firefighters being treated at Westminster Hospital during the Blitz. The photo is dated ...

In 1913, the Tea House at Kew Gardens in London was set alight by suffragettes Olive Wharry and Lilian Lenton. The suffragettes were respo...

Clothing store Gardiner gave its name to the junction Gardiner's Corner, which brought together the main thoroughfares of East...

The "Battle of Stepney" raged on Sidney Street, East London, on Jan. 2, 1911, with bullets flying and flames.  A gunfight and fi...

On Aug. 17, 2010, the fire brigade extricated a burglary suspect who was too wide to fit through a window in East London, according to the ...

Photo : BBC On Aug. 1, 2010, London firefighters rescued two people from a six-pump fire at Sudbury House on Wandsworth High Street.

Major fire on Queen Victoria Street in 1891.

Photo : City of London Firefighters and Auxiliary Fire Service trailer pump at "emergency dam" at Aldermanbury after a German air...

On July 5, 2010, London firefighters rescued several people - including these women standing on the window ledge - from a fire in a commerci...

Photo : BBC On Sept. 10, 1973, the Irish Republican Army detonated a bomb at the Euston railway station in central London. About an hour e...

Photo : Daily Telegraph On July 5, 2007, hundreds of London Underground commuters were trapped on the Central Line for two hours after a tr...

In the years leading up to World War Two, collecting "cigarette cards" was a popular hobby, and in 1938 tobacco companies issued...

Photo : Metropolitan Police "The Fenians were 19th Century Irish Nationalists organised in 1858 as the Irish Republican Brotherhood in...

Photo : Sky News web site On Dec. 16, 2009, a double-decker bus accident in Battersea injured about two dozen people. Crews from the London...

Photo : Fire Engine Photos London Salvage Corps DCU (damage control unit) in Tottenham in late 1970s. The vehicle carried tarpaulins and ot...

Photos : BBC web site, submitted by viewers Fire in Shoreditch, central London On March 11, 2010, flames swept a block of buildings on Tab...

Photo : Collection of Kevin McDermott, retired London firefighter Firefighters in cork helmets at warehouse blaze in London, circa 1960s or...

From left to right - Station Officer Hanslip with Firemen McDermott, Elliot and Sloman outside Whitefriars Fire Station in London, 1959 Pho...

On March 25, 1945, fire broke out in the engine room of the cargo ship Fresno Star at London's Royal Victoria Dock. "Firefighters w...

Photo: BBC On Jan. 10, 1985, a natural gas explosion leveled Newnham House, a three-story block of flats at the Manor Fields Estate in Putne...

German bombers routinely hit London's industrial East End during the Blitz of 1940-1941 - destroying docks, warehouses and factories and...

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Rescue (1855) is a painting by John Everett Millais depicting a London fireman rescuing three chil...

Image : Accident Report Photo: Newham Recorder On April 8, 1953, rescuers freed commuters trapped in a London Underground tunnel after two t...

Photo : London Fire Brigade ( Editor's Note: Thank you to Station Manager Robin Whittington of London's Poplar Fire Station for prov...

Photo : Collection of Kevin McDermott, retired London firefighter The collapse of an old air raid shelter at Goswell Road, Islington, in 19...

Photo : Ottawa Citizen On March 24, 1980, flames destroyed the Italian Consulate in London's fashionable Knightsbridge district. More t...

Photos : BBC On May 5, 1980, a six-day siege at the Iranian embassy ended after a dramatic raid by Special Air Service commandos that free...

On Feb. 28, 1994, a homeless man surrendered to police for setting a blaze claimed 11 lives at an adult theater in Clerkenwell, London. The ...

"There's always this hurry. Now you'll have to tell me if my helmet's on straight." London Evening News - July 24, ...

Flames and aerial bombardment visited Madame Tussaud's wax museum in London during the 20th Century, gutting the popular exhibition hall...

UPDATED JULY 2021 Images:  Illustrated London News; Elyria (Ohio) Chronicle Telegram, Jan. 27, 1903;  post card On Jan. 27, 1903, a fire a...