Emergency Collection

Police Public Call Box in the snow, London
A Police Public Call Box, on a London street on a snowy day. The Metropolitan Police introduced police boxes throughout the London area between 1928 and 1937

Shotley Bridge General Hospital, County Durham
Aerial view of Shotley Bridge Hospital, County Durham. It was originally opened by the Gateshead Union in 1912 as a TB sanatorium (far right of picture)

LCC-LFB Tooley Street fire station and its crews
Built in 1879, and located at 165 Tooley Street, this station remained operational until 1928 when the new Dockhead fire station was opened and the engines and crews transferred there

WW2 poster, How to tackle a fire bomb, indoors and outdoors, with explanatory illustrations, by the Ministry of Home Security. Date: early 1940s

Multi service emergency vehicles and their personnel

GLC-LFB New Lewisham fire station appliance room
The appliance room of the newly commissioned Lewisham Fire Station, located in Lewisham High Street, SE London. Showing Lewishams appliances, a pump-escape, pump and emergency tender

GLC-LFB appliance fleet -- Emergency Tender
The GLC-LFB was created on 1 April 1965. A series of photos was commissioned of each type of fire engine, either within or absorbed into the enlarged London Fire Brigade

GLC-LFB appliance fleet -- Emergency Tender
The GLC-LFB was created on 1 April 1965. A series of photos was commissioned of each type of fire engine, either within or absorbed into the enlarged London Fire Brigade

GLC-LFB appliance fleet -- a foam tender
The GLC-LFB was created on 1 April 1965. A series of photos was commissioned of each type of fire engine, either within or absorbed into the enlarged London Fire Brigade

LCC-LFB AFS Green Goddess pump, Lambeth HQ
A typical AFS (government design) Green Goddess pump, at drill in the yard of Brigade Headquarters station, Lambeth. Created prior to the outbreak of WW2

LFB wartime emergency appliance and trailer pump, WW2
A Fordson Unit and trailer pump at the London Fire Brigade headquarters, Lambeth. These were just some of the 2000 adapted vehicles utilised as AFS fire appliances

Police Public Call Box, London
A police officer using a Police Public Call Box on a London street. The Metropolitan Police introduced police boxes throughout the London area between 1928 and 1937

Police Car Chase 1991
Police officers driving a police car during a car chase, on the radio and wearing seatbelts. Metropolitan Police on an emergency call

Gun transport exercise, Wentworth Woodhouse, Yorkshire
An emergency gun transport exercise taking place at Wentworth Woodhouse, Lord Fitzwilliams residence at Rotherham, Yorkshire

GLC-LFB Road traffic accident (RTA)
A collision between a bus and car resulted in the bus careering into a terraced house and a response by all the emergency services

Policeman and Call Box
A police officer on the beat south of Pall Mall, central London, reports back to the station using a police call box

A London Underground platform at Bank station
An empty London Underground platform at Bank station, on the Northern Line. early 1930s

Blitz in London -- AFS personnel receiving treatment, WW2
With the Blitz still at its height, Londons firefighters and fire support crews are removed to local hospitals for emergency treatment after receiving injuries fighting the fires started by enemy

LCC-LFB Breathing apparatus communications set
A Sub Officer from Lambeths (D61) emergency tender crew demonstrating the Southampton communications equipment that was worn with a full face mask on the Proto (oxygen) breathing apparatus set

United States Air Force - Martin NRB-57D Canberra 53-3973 31 May 1956 accepted by the 4080 Strategic Reconnaissance Wing 1959-61: AFSC. Converted to WB-57D

Example of a woman dialling 999 for the emergency services in a red telephone booth

LCC-LFB emergency dam unit and trailer pump, WW2
Emergency water supplies were vital to supplementing the available mains supply for fighting the vast swathe of fires that swept parts of London during the Blitz

The General Strike - Government leaders
Government leaders during the General Strike: Ministers and Commissioners. 1. Chief Civil Commissioner: Sir W. Mitchell-Thomson, 2. Principal Chief Assistant Commissioner, Mr. A. B. Lowry, 3

Ramsgate lifeboat men on board stranded ship
Ramsgate lifeboat men with passengers on board a ship caught on the Goodwin Sands. Date: 19th century

Firemen, c. 1910 at the Natural History Museum
In 1906, telephonic fire alarms were installed that linked ten points around the Museum with the Firemens Room in the basement and the local Fire Brigade station

Earls Court Wheel
The Giant Ferris Wheel at Earls Court, London, showing the emergency evacuation procedure - a picture which was no doubt intended to reassure nervous passengers Date: 1894

Bank door transportation
Safes, Bankers Trust Co. Vaults. Team of horses pulling a vault door on Broad Street at Pearl Street, presumably on its way to the Bankers Trust Co. for installation; sign of rig reads: EMERGENCY DOOR

Hands-Free Telephone Set
A telephone receptionist (possibly working for the emergency services) uses a rather cumbersome hands-free telephone, worn around the neck

People escaping by boat during the Great Fire of London
People escaping by boat on the River Thames during the Great Fire of London. Date: 1666

WW2 Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst - Womens War Emergency Council
Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst (1882-1960) - (standing) presiding over the Womens War Emergency Council which she started immediately after the outbreak of WW2

Firemen - Fire King Hose Co. No. 3 - Providence, RI, USA
Firemen atop their horse-drawn hose wagon - Fire King Hose Co. No.3 House on Pond Street, - Providence, Rhode Island, USA. Hose-wagon built in 1895 - drawn by two horses and fitted with rubber tyres

Hawker Sea Fury Landing Accident / Crash Sequence Onto Aircraft-Carrier Hms Glory (R62) Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm Faa During Korean War Date: 1952

Abraham Wivell's Improved Fire Escape Date: 1860

WW2 - Emergency Control Room
A photograph of some figures working in a British railway emergency control room. Date: circa 1944

RMS Queen Mary, lifeboat emergency ration tin
RMS QUEEN MARY: Lifeboat emergency ration tin, identical to Queen Mary ration tins sold previously. 7ins. 2ins

WW2, Emergency Mobile Canteen Corps
An illustration which shows an interior of a room where civilians and WW2 servicemen are having tea, served by ladies of the Emergency Mobile Canteen Corps. Date: circa 1940s

WW2, Wartime Firemen
An illustration which shows some WW2 firemen putting out flames in the city, a woman of the Emergency Mobile Canteen Corps is helping out. Date: circa 1940s

WW2, Jackie Saves An Airman
This illustration shows Jackie, a fictional WW2 lady of the Emergency Mobile Canteen Corps, bravely pulling a British airman away from his flaming wreck of a plane. Date: circa 1940s

WW2, At The Carriage Windows
This illustration shows Jackie and Pam, some fictional WW2 ladies of the Emergency Mobile Canteen Corps, approaching a train carriage, British Army servicemen are reaching out of the windows

WW2, Jackie Serving Tea
This illustration shows Jackie, a fictional character from a WW2 story book, she serves for the Emergency Mobile Canteen Corps, offering tea to some servicemen

Music cover, The Alarm Galop, by T Browne, showing firemen near St Paul's Cathedral, City of London Date: circa 1880

Waving not Drowning, Henry cartoon by Carl Anderson Date: 1936

The Motor Picture Book, Fire Engines Past and Present Date: 1930

Front cover, Daily Graphic, General Strike Emergency Edition - ninth day of the strike. Date: 1926

Cessna 500 Citation I VP-BGE (msn 500-0287). (This aircraft crashed into a house near Biggin Hill airport of 30 March 2008, after an in-flight emergency during take-off-climb) Date: circa 2000

Cessna 421 G-BBOB
Cessna 421 Golden Eagle G-BBOB (msn 421B-0519), of the Myson Group Ltd. at Southend in October 1977. (Caught fire in the air on 19 January 1989: emergency landing at Blackbpool) Date: 1977

Ilyushin Il-76TD RA-76362
Russian Ministry for Emergency Situations (MchS) - Ilyushin Il-76TD RA-76362 (msn 1033416533) Date: circa 2000

United States Air Force - Republic YRF-84F Thunderstreak 49-2430 FICON parasite, at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, seen with the retractable nose hook extended

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