LONDON FIRE JOURNAL British Fire History

Photo : British Pathe On Oct. 5, 1954, fire swept the top floor of the Royal Mail Mount Pleasant Sorting Office in London. M ore than 20 min...

Photos : London Fire Brigade On Jan. 8, 2018,  15 engines responded to a fire at a paint factory on Waterloo Road, Staples Corner, L...

"Misha" Photos : Shy News, London Zoo On Dec. 23, 2017, fire broke out at the London Zoo, claiming the life of an arrdvark na...

On Oct. 16, 1834, fire ripped through the Palace of Westminster, home of British Parliament. The first hint of disaster was a burning odor...

Fighting a losing battle Map of fire Images : Country Life, Wikipedia When flames devoured most of London in September...

On Aug. 24, 1940, the Luftwaffe bombed the Thames Haven Oil Wharf   on the  Thames Estuary at Thurrock, Essex. The blaze was one of the f...

Photo : Hartlepool Borough Council The Match Factory at Hartlepool in County Durham took fire Aug. 30, 1954. "It showed as a column o...

On Oct. 28, 2016, fire destroyed the timber-framed Royal Clarence Hotel in Exeter - said to be  England’s oldest hotel. Flames started in ...

Photo: Merseyside Police/Liverpool City Police 1941 Blitz 1886 Fire "David Lewis founded a small shop selling men’s and boy’s clothing...

Photo : Instagram London Fire Brigade aerial platform, Maida Vale, 1997

Photo : Instagram London firefighters at Sheepcote Road, Harrow, August 1995  

Photos : Metro, BBC, London Fire Brigade By BBC Newsnight July 7, 2017 A series of failings that hampered the efforts of firefi...

On Feb. 10, 1969, a fire and explosion at a hardware rocked the village of Ripley in Surrey. T he Guilford Times and Advertiser said: ...

Photo : londonreconnections.com On Oct. 9, 1960, a Handley Page Hermes aircraft operated by  UK-charter carrier Falcon Airways overshot  the...

Photo : Cultural Community Solutions On Dec. 19, 1973, an express train traveling at 70 mph derailed at Ealing in West London, killing 10 ...

Photo : Birmingham Mail On Jan. 23, 1955, an express train plowed into the platform at Sutton Coldfield station in Birmingham, killing 17 ...

On June 9, 1902, fire claimed nine lives on Queen Victoria Street in the City of London. Escape ladders were too short to rescue people f...

Photo : London Fire Brigade On the evening of Oct. 7, 1940, Soho fire station in central London took a direct hit during the Blitz, killin...

On Nov. 9, 2016, a tram derailed near Addiscombe Road in Croydon, killing five people and injuring more than 50 others. The London Fire...

Photo : London Fire Brigade London firefighters rescue Dennis Norman McGowan, 19 months old, on Feb. 25, 1956. The child's mother wait...

Photos : Wikipedia, Manchester Fire & Rescue On June, 15, 1996, the Provisional Irish Republican Army detonated a 3,000-pound ...

Photo : PortCitiesLondon, Caters News Agency Fire at Surrey Commercial Docks, Rotherhithe on  Sept. 7, 1940, the first day of the Blit...

Photos : BBC On July 6, 1978, fire burned out a British Rail sleeping car at Fairwater Close, Taunton, killing 13 people and inju...

On the night of Dec. 29-30, 1940, London suffered the "Second Great Fire" -  timed by German raiders to coincide with low tide o...

Photos : ITV, Examiner On Oct. 31, 1941,  fire swept H. Booth & Son clothing factory in Huddersfield,  England, claiming 49 lives...

On Dec. 21, 1949, fire broke out in stacks of Christmas trees stored in catacombs beneath London's Covent Garden flower market, killin...

Illustration : BBC From 1953 to 2004, the British government maintained a fleet of "Green Goddess" reserve fire engines  for civ...

Three members of the Kent Fire Brigade died in the aftermath of a fire at a psychiatric hospital in November 1957. From Kent History Forum...