LONDON FIRE JOURNAL British Fire History

Photo : Liverpool Ambulance On June 22, 1960, fire destroyed Henderson's department store in Liverpool, claiming 11 lives. The blaze led...

Memorial mural at  Whitechapel Fire Station Photo : BBC On July 20, 2004, Whitechapel station firefighters Bill Faust and Adam Meere died in...

  Fire at Royal Princess's Theatre, 73 Oxford Street in London, in 1829. It was rebuilt.

On May 6, 1913, fire gutted St. Catherine's Church in London and contemporary reports suggested the fire was set by suffragettes.  The s...

Photo : Wiki Commons Queen Elizabeth II meeting London Fire Brigade members who responded to 1974's wave of IRA bombings.

The Luftwaffe dropped thousands of bombs on  London  from 1939 to 1945, killing almost 30,000 people and demolishing more than  than 70,000 ...

Photos : Institution of Fire Engineers Firefighters from London's old Clerkenwell fire station paid dearly in life and flesh at ...

On April 21, 1902, fire erupted at MacQueen's hat factory in the Barbican and wind-whipped flames gutted adjacent buildings. "Three...

" The most serious fire which has as yet taken place in the network of the tube railways under London broke out recently about 25 yds...

On Oct. 6, 1854, a fire and explosion ravaged the neighboring towns of Gateshead and Newcastle upon Tyne, killing 53 people and cau...

Photo : Manchester Fire and Rescue Service Drought led to an outbreak of grass fires from Manchester to London during the summer of 2018...

Grenfell Tower disaster, June 14, 2017 - 72 dead, 70 injured, 223 escaped David Badillo, front, and watch manager Michael Dowden at G...

On Nov. 5, 1902, fire  broke out in a cotton spinning machine on the third floor of the Vernon Cotton Mills No. 1 mill in Stockport. The...

On July 28, 2008, flames engulfed the century-old  Grand Pier at Weston-super-Mare and  Avon Fire and Rescue Service deployed 13 en...

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...