LONDON FIRE JOURNAL British Fire History

Photo: liverpoolships.org On Jan. 25, 1953, fire destroyed the ocean liner Empress of Canada at Gladstone Dock in Liverpool during ...

Photo : Private Collection  "Make pumps 20." Reading Lane, Hackney, about 1960.

Photo : Islington Gazette "Alpha 27" - Clerkenwell Fire Station Ten London fire stations - including Clerkenwell, Europe'...

On Dec. 19, 2013, a section of London's famed Apollo Theatre's ornate plasterwork ceiling collapsed during a performance.  Scores...

Photo : East London Advertiser Fire boats in action at St. Katharine's Dock, near Tower Bridge, on Sept. 7, 1940, at the start of the ...

Photo : Topical Press Agency  Women's Fire Brigade at hose and ladder drill during First World War in March 1916.

Photo : BBC website On Sept. 29, 2013, fire erupted on the London Duck Tours craft Cleopatra on the Thames in London. Thirty people were...

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"...