Emergency Collection (page 5)

Illustration, stopping a runaway pony
Illustration, Robin riding Jerry attempts to stop Dumpling from running off with Elizabeth on her back. Date: 1930

Man reporting boat in trouble, Penzance, Cornwall
A man on horseback, reporting a boat in trouble during a storm, Penzance, Cornwall. Date: circa 1870s

Decima Moore
Lilian Decima, Lady Moore-Guggisberg, CBE (11 December 1871 18 February 1964), better known by her stage name Decima Moore, English singer and actress

Womens Emergency Corps making toys, WW1
Members of the Womens Emergency Corps learning to make toys in September 1914. Before the war, Germany was the main exporter of toys to Britain but a number of voluntary organisations

Ausnahmegesetze (emergency laws). Thomas Theodor Heine Caricature comparing Bismarcks inability to contain the social democracy and Joseph Wirth, Chancellor of Germany from 1921 to 1922

Dial 999 display in an LFB exhibition
A Dial 999 display in a London Fire Brigade exhibition with details on either side of the services available

Traffic congestion, Covent Garden, London WC2
Traffic congestion in the Covent Garden area, London WC2, 26 March 1959, looking down towards The Strand, with the corner of Maiden Lane, and the offices of The Lady magazine on the left

Firefighters at Middlesex Street, Aldgate, E1
Lambeth and Clerkenwell emergency tender crews in Middlesex Street, Aldgate, London E1, on 23 June 1958. They are equipped with breathing apparatus, awaiting orders to enter a burning building

Blitz in London -- night at an AFS station, WW2
Blitz in London -- a night-time scene in an AFS station, 19 September 1940, with an armed guard keeping watch over appliances kept ready to answer any emergency. Date: 1940

LFB firefighter in a hurry, with coat and helmet
LFB firefighter in a hurry, running with his coat on one hand and his helmet in the other

AFS worker with emergency appliance, WW2
An Auxiliary Fire Service worker with an emergency appliance. Date: 1940s

AFS workers with emergency appliance, WW2
Three Auxiliary Fire Service workers loading an emergency appliance into a vehicle. Date: 1940s

Fire at construction site, Oxford Street, London
Fire at a construction site in Oxford Street, London, 14 February 1955. The building was under reconstruction following war damage

Browns fire alarm head (open)

Browns fire alarm head (closed) with instructions
Browns fire alarm head (closed), with instructions in English and Hebrew

Street telephone fire alarm with group of children
Street telephone fire alarm for emergency calls, with a group of children looking up at it

Street telephone fire alarm, out of order
Street telephone fire alarm for emergency calls, with an out of order notice on it

Woman dialling 999 in a public telephone box, London
Woman dialling 999 in a public telephone box near the Royal Festival Hall on Londons South Bank, used for a fire service exhibition. Date: 1957

Enamel sign, emergency water supply
Enamel sign, fire brigade emergency water supply, open water, 4703

Emergency call button in telephone box
The emergency call button in a public telephone box -- just press the button and ask for Fire, Ambulance or Police. No number or coins required

Firefighter using telephone point in street
Firefighter using a telephone point (marked Ambulance Call) in the street

Cars blocking Lisle Street, London WC2. Parking was allowed on both sides of this one-way street, making it difficult for fire services to get through in an emergency

London firefighters sliding down a pole. Date: 1960s

First one-engined, eight-seater aeroplane
Airco 18, a new type of aeroplane carrying 18 passengers across-channel, London to Paris. The pilot, reversing previous practice, sits behind

Map of Low Countries by G. H. Davis
Defence by inundation: the Low Countries bar against invasion. A pictorial map drawn in the early weeks of the Second World War

Delivery of beds to the Admiralty, London, WW1
A delivery of beds to the Admiralty in London, so that employees may stay on the premises overnight to deal with emergencies during the First World War. Date: September 1914

Getting quickly on deck from cabins by G. H. Davis
The difficulty of getting quickly on deck from cabins: the maze inside a modern liner. A suggested illuminated sign, and a photograph of the newly designed Gaskin Hart lifeboat at the West India

The General Strike - incidents of the Strike 1926
The arrest of a woman (between two policemen in centre foreground) at Hammersmith Broadway in West London during the General Strike

The General Strike - civil constabulary reserve 1926
A unit of new recruits to the new civil constabulary reserve, equipped with steel helmets, truncheons and armlets, leaving headquarters at Buckingham Gate in London during the General Strike

The General Strike - demobilisation of volunteers 1926
Colonel St. John Fox, Commandant of the Headquarters Central Division of the Metropolitan Special Constabulary Reserve, addressing the division (including regulars)

The General Strike - Sphere emergency number
Front cover of The Sphere emergency number issued during the General Strike. Photograph shows mounted police controlling crowds at Elephant and Castle in South London

A New Seaside Tenor
A new Seaside Tenor launches into his signature tune. It looks as if the audience may just be making use of the extra exit in case of emergency... " Please vacate the aria !!! " Date: 1901

Uruguay - Montevideo Fire Department and transport Date: circa 1908

Short S8 Calcutta G-EBVH City of Athens
Short S8 Calcutta, G-EBVH, City of Athens, of Imperial Airways, on shore at Alexandria showing the emergency aerial up and the method of securing the machine

The after gondola of the R34 containing two engines geared to one propeller. The emergency elevator wheel may be seen through the central window

Junkers Ju52 / 3m troop carrying transport
Junkers Ju52/3m troop carrying transport at an emergency landing field in Norway

Scout on lunch break
A Scout on emergency duty at a telephone post near London having a sandwich break; he has a flask with him as well. circa 1940

Dennis emergency tender

Firefighters in Emergency Tender, Southwark HQ
Two firefighters in breathing equipment inside an Emergency Tender at Southwark Headquarters, London

Firefighters with one of the first emergency tenders
Firefighters and a van with their equipment laid out. Four of the firefighters are wearing proto-breathing apparatus. In 1929 the Brigade introduced the first enclosed emergency tender to respond to

London Fire Brigade decontamination exercise
A London Fire Brigade mass decontamination exercise, Mayday Hospital, Thornton Heath, South London

Firefighters, paramedics and the police, East London
Firefighters, paramedics and the police respond to a fire at Marshgate Railway Sidings, Stratford, East London

LCC-LFB - Self-contained smoke helmets (BA sets)
Self-contained smoke helmets (BA sets) were introduced for use in an atmosphere dense with smoke and dangerous fumes. A special motor appliance fitted for smoke helmet work was based at Southwark HQ

GLC-LFB Propane cylinder involved in a fire
A propane gas cylinder is placed in an emergency dam to cool after being involved in a fire and explosion at Liddell Gardens, Kilburn, NW London

GLC-LFB appliance fleet -- hose laying lorry
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 Lambeths emergency tender and crew
A London A class emergency tender with built-in electrical generator, in use from the early 1950s until the 1960s. Showing Lambeth fire stations (D61)

LCC-LFB Southwarks Emergency Tender with lights
Southwarks Emergency Tender with lights. By the mid-1920s emergency tenders were developing into far more than just a carrier of firefighters with breathing apparatus

LCC-LFB Clerkenwell Emergency Tender
Clerkenwells emergency tender with its fire crew in Proto breathing apparatus. Clerkenwell fire station was built in 1870

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