LONDON FIRE JOURNAL British Fire History

On Sept. 2, 2002, London firefighters rescued seven people from a fire at a four-story hostel on Montagu Place, Marylebone. Eight engines a...

Photo : Metropolitan Police In April 1981, the streets of Brixton erupted in flames. The disturbance started after police attempted...

On Oct. 1, 1869, an explosion killed seven people in a house in Bayswater. The owner of the house, at 69, Moscow Road - a Mr. Titheradge - w...

At 8:19 a.m. on Oct. 8, 1952, disaster struck at the Harrow and Wealdstone rail station in northwest London. An express train crashed i...

   Tooley Street Fire - 1861 By Vinny Del Giudice Editor, London Fire Journal On July 9, 1861, the steamship Arago arrived ...

During World War II, Hull was the most severely bombed British city apart from London, according to official estimates. 86,715 buildings...

On Oct. 10, 1957, fire struck Pile 1 at the Windscale nuclear power station in West Cumbria. "There was no smoke and no flames a...

On May 24, 1891, London fireman George Byne was seriously injured in a rescue attempt at the home of a nobleman - Lord William Romilly, 2nd ...

Gravett, Houghton and Rey A tip of the helmet to Canadian firefighter Huw Jones for alerting us to the movie "I Was a Fireman"...

The German raids of World War Two claimed the lives of 327 firefighters serving in the London region - members of both the regular and auxil...

Photo : Churchill College Churchill inspects bomb damage in London on Sept. 10, 1940; firemen seem to pay no mind. The Blitz enhanced the p...

On March 5, 1856, fire destroyed the Covent Garden Theatre in London. A  bystander reported: "The flames had burst through the roof, th...

Photo: Stephen McKay March 11, 2010 - View from City Road of fire on Worship Street.

Editor's Note: The following article is rewritten from a report into this incident published in “FIRE” magazine dated November 1970. The...

"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...