LONDON FIRE JOURNAL British Fire History

Photo : Skyscraper City Photo : Manchester Libraries Photo : Woolworths Museum On May 8, 1979, flames swept Woolworth...

On March 6, 1926, fire struck  Stratford's Shakespeare Memorial Theatre. A passing cyclist  raised the alarm.

  In the early hours of Dec. 26, 1969, fire swept the Rose & Crown Hotel in Saffron Waldron, killing 11 people. The blaze led to refo...

Photo : Private Collection From London Fireman Magazine December 1966 “Moderate or fresh East or North East winds; bright intervals; sn...

Fire broke out at the Top Storey Club in Bolton, Lancashire, on May 1, 1961,   killing 19 people. The occupied the top floors of an old ...

On July 3, 1968, an Airspeed Ambassador propeller aircraft carrying eight racehorses  slammed  into two parked jets at London...

Photo : Imperial War Museums Firemen at Cox's Court off Little Britain in the City of London after air raid on July 7, 1917. By Fr...

In London, "a fire at the West India Docks today (July 11, 1901) destroyed a number of huge sheds and their contents. The amount of dam...

Photo : UK Fire Engines Essex Road, Isington, Sept. 13, 1958

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...