LONDON FIRE JOURNAL British Fire History

London firemen release boy from fence, circa 1950s or 1960s

On Aug. 14, 1883, fire destroyed a "lunatic asylum'' at Southall Park, killing six people, according to Haydn's Dictionary ...

On Aug. 29, 1929, flames gutted Lulworth Castle in Dorset, England.  The 16th Century castle sat in disrepair in the decades following ...

Dave Squires   Editor's Note : Weston-super-Mare is a town located on Bristol Channel in North Somerset, England. You editor foun...

Painting by Fred Ford from collection of Devon & Somerset Fire & Rescue Service On Sept. 5, 1887, a fire at Exter's T...

 Flames devoured the Anglo Scotian Mills in Beeston, England, on April 29, 1886. 

Photo : Street of Liverpool Workers retrieve fire engine from bomb crater on Roe Street in Liverpool in late 1941.

Photo : Wikipedia Blitz damage on Birmingham High Street, looking toward Bull Ring, April 10, 1941. The Luftwaffe dropped 1,852 tons of b...

On April 10, 1984, fire claimed eight lives - including a hero nurse - at King Edward Memorial Hospital, the only hospital in the Falklan...

Photo : G. Del Giudice Buckingham Palace fire service - August 2014

King George VI visits Lambeth Fire Station during World War II. Major Frank Jackson, chief of London Fire Brigade during 1940-41 blitz, ...

Photo : Memorial website Surveying the ruins It was the largest loss of fire service personnel in U.K. history. On April 20, 1941, a German...

The London Auxiliary Fire Service fighting a fire near Whitehall road caused by an incendiary bomb. Photograph by William Vandivert. Lond...

Photo : Wikipedia Firefighters on roof after suspicious blaze at old South London Camping Warehouse in South London in 1980.

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...