Drill Collection (page 6)

Firefighter training with foam extinguisher
Firefighter training with a foam extinguisher, 18 April 1956. Date: 1956

Firefighters training with foam extinguisher
Two firefighters training with a foam extinguisher. Date: circa 1950s

Recruiting poster, No 3 Coy Dorset Royal Garrison Artillery
Recruitment poster, For King & Country, Territorial Force, No 3 Company Dorsetshire Royal Garrison Artillery, Recruits are required for the above company, 1910 (c). Date: 1910

LFB Dennis dual-purpose pump, Lambeth HQ
Lambeths (D61) pump at its base station, on display in Brigade headquarters drill yard. Side mounted pump outlets together with hose-reel tubing and two hook ladders can be seen

B Division training exercise, London Docks
B Division training exercise at London Docks, 6 February 1955. Date: 1955

Firefighters taking part in a hose training drill
Two firefighters taking part in a hose training drill

Horse-drawn steamer taking part in special drill
A horse-drawn steamer and crew taking part in a special drill display given at Lambeth HQ for chief officers of provincial fire brigades on 13 October 1937. Seen here are hosepipes in action

Shand Mason MFB horse-drawn steam pump and crew
A Shand Mason MFB horse-drawn steam pump and crew, taking part in a special drill display given to chief officers of provincial fire brigades on 13 October 1937

Horse-drawn fire vehicle and crew in display
A horse-drawn fire vehicle and crew in traditional dress, taking part in a special drill display given on 13 October 1937 to Chief Officers of provincial fire brigades. Date: 1937

Weekly LFB drill display with manual and motor pumps
Weekly LFB drill display with an old manual pump and a modern turbine motor pump both brought into action, 26 August 1936. Date: 1936

Weekly LFB drill display with old manual pump
Weekly LFB drill display with an old manual pump brought into action, 26 August 1936. Date: 1936

Inspecting recruits at Tower of London, WW1
An Inspector of Recruits at the Tower of London. These were men who volunteered at the outbreak of war and are pictured still in civilian clothes. Date: 1914

Firefighters in training with various equipment in a drill yard

Firefighters with smoke extractor in drill yard
Firefighters with smoke extractor equipment in a drill yard

LFB firefighters doing Swedish Drill to improve their physical fitness

AFS women, gas mask drill, WW2
AFS women doing a gas mask drill during the Second World War

Visit to LFB by Mr Attlee, Lord Privy Seal, WW2
Mr Clement Attlee (Lord Privy Seal in Winston Churchills wartime coalition government, later Deputy Prime Minister 1942-1945 and Prime Minister 1945-1951)

LFB water relaying drills, Hyde Park, London
LFB water relaying drills taking place in Hyde Park, London, on 12 February 1938, watched by mothers and their children. Date: 1938

London Fire Brigade escape competition with dummies
London Fire Brigade escape competition at Drill HQ on 11 April 1933, aerial view, lowering a dummy down to the ground. Date: 1933

London Fire Brigade Annual Review demonstration, carrying a rescued man down a ladder during a fire. Date: 1931

Firefighter taking part in a hose training drill

Junior LFB firefighters practise on a Wheeled Escape Ladder Date: circa 1950s

LFB escape training at HQ, 17 July 1955. A firefighter carries a woman down a ladder. Date: 1955

Firefighters operating old pump at special drill display
Firefighters operating an old pump at a special drill display given on 13 October 1937 to Chief Officers of provincial fire brigades. Date: 1937

Old pump at special drill display
Men bringing out an old pump for a special drill display given on 13 October 1937 to Chief Officers of provincial fire brigades. Date: 1937

LCC-London Fire Brigade recruits undergoing examination in pump drill, connecting a pump to a hydrant

LCC-London Fire Brigade, motorised pump at hose drill
Fire crew in the drill yard of the London Fire Brigade headquarters, Southwark, getting hose lines to work from a motorised fire pump. Date: 1909

Firefighter training, LFB HQ, Lambeth
Firefighter training at the London Fire Brigade HQ in Lambeth, with a man operating a hose at the top of the turntable ladder. Aerial view, probably taken from the top of the drill tower

Fire engine and drill tower, LFB HQ, Lambeth
Fire engine and drill tower at the London Fire Brigade HQ in Lambeth, with a training exercise in progress

The new army at drill in Hyde Park at the start of WWI
In the six weeks between 4th August and 15th September 1914, over 501, 000 recruits were enlisted into the British Army. The training was essentially practical

Bystander - Making assurance doubly sure
An illustration showing a sergeant teaching his soldiers how to stab someone with a bayonet to maximise the effect of the stab by twisting the bayonet, in preparation for fighting in WW1. Date: 1916

Training session, sprinkler installations
Firefighters at a training session on sprinkler installations

SHUN ! The Drill Instructor. 386202 Acting Sergeant Herbert Gibson, Mm, 1St Northumbrian Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps. Born September 1889

Scouts of the 4th Calcutta Troop, India
Scouts of the 4th Calcutta (Armenian College) Troop, India, doing physical drill

Tent and trek carts, No. 1 Scout Troop, Bombay, India
Tent and trek carts belonging to No.1 Scout Troop, Bombay, India. The trek carts were used during ambulance drill

Scouts of No. 1 Troop, Bombay, India
Scouts of No.1 Troop, Bombay, India, with a covered trek cart

Fire Drill, Grooms Orphanage, Clacton-on-Sea
Fire drill at John Grooms Orphanage and Crippleage opened in 1890 at Clacton in Essex. Groom was a London engraver and evangelical preacher, whose concern for poor and disabled flower-sellers

2nd King Edwards Horse, men of the rank & file on drill gro
Men of the rank and file in the 2nd King Edwards Horse marching on the drill ground at White City where the regiment was quartered in 1914 before going to the front

Prince Henry in training at Eton, WW1
Prince Henry, later Duke of Gloucester, third son of King George V and Queen Mary, pictured second from left marching in the ranks at the Eton College Officers Training Corps. Date: 1915

Firewomen, a rescue on an iron staircase, WW1
A firewoman demonstrating a rescue on an iron staircase using another lady as her prop. Business firms in the West End trained women in the Fire Brigade drill so they could take the place of male

Wolverhampton Royal Orphanage
Older boys carry out rifle drill while younger ones look on at the Wolverhampton Royal Orphanage. Date: Date unknown

Metropolitan and City Police Orphanage, Twickenham, Middlese
Boys perform a drill with clubs in the gymnasium at the Metropolitan and City Police Orphanage, Twickenham. Date: Circa 1909

A land-girls dress
An example of work-on-land dress available from Shoolbreds of Tottenham Court Roadbuilt entirely out of bronze khaki drill, made of a three quarter length smock coat

Ladder drill at LFB Southwark HQ. Date: early 20th century

NFS (London Region) fire brigade display at Lambeth, WW2
During 1942 and 1943, 23 air raids occurred over the London Region, but they were light in character. The firefighters of the NFS needed to be kept in a state of constant readiness

GLC-LFB - Junior firemen at Shoreditch fire station
The London junior firemen scheme started in 1964. Here they give a PE demonstration at the formal opening of the new Shoreditch Fire Station

Drilling recruits in Temple Gardens, London, WW1
Drilling recruits in Temple Gardens, London, at the start of the First World War, while a tennis match goes on in the background

Recruits training at Lambeth HQ. Date: 1930s

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