Fire Collection (page 13)

Belsize Fire Station Date: 2009

Woman patient, St Marys Hospital, Paddington, London
LFB Special Services trying to help a woman patient at St Marys Hospital, Paddington, London, on 15 April 1959. She has climbed out of a ward window at fifth floor level

LCC-LFB firefighters with old hose cart
Four LCC-LFB firefighters with a 60-year old hose cart, 17 August 1938. The cart was housed in the HQ in Cherry Garden Street

Crew of the Bexleyheath Fire Brigade, Kent, with fire engine and hose

Firefighters with their dog mascot, WW2
Firefighters with their dog mascot during the Second World War. Date: early 1940s

Bow Church and Bread Street, London - following WW2 Blitz
Bow Church and Bread Street, London - following the WW2 Blitz on London by the German Luftwaffe. Date: circa 1941

Belgian Artillery Battery in action - WWI
Belgian Artillery Battery in action - screened (partially!) by trees - early months of WWI. Date: circa 1914

Motorised appliance with crew

LCC-MFB Dulwich fire station and horse steamer
A seven man crew from Dulwich fire station pose on the forecourt with their Merryweather steam pump. One member of a firemans family peers through the lace curtains of the accommodation at first

Massey Shaw fireboat demonstrates pumping
Moored at its Blackfriars river station on the Victoria Embankment, the newly commissioned Massey Shaw fireboat demonstrates its massive pumping capacity by discharging a vast amount of water

LCC-LFB Dennis petrol pump
Supplied by Dennis of Guildford, Surrey, the latest in the range of petrol driven pumps supplied to the London Fire Brigade

LCC-LFB in Lord Mayors Show, City of London
London firefighters and Auxiliary firefighters with appliances taking part in the annual Lord Mayors Show through the City of London. A Bedford heavy pump unit with crew leads the LFB contingent

Reduced fire hazard thru planned housing. Poster promoting planned housing as a method to reduce fire hazards in cities. Date between 1936 and 1938

Home safety is home defense Men: to learn proper fire control join the fire department auxiliary corps at the nearest fire house

Headquarters of the New York Fire Department, Brooklyn

Bielsko-Biala - Poland
Town on the Polish - on the Czech Republic border - Bielsko-Biala Date: circa 1900

German gunners with heavy artillery, France, WW1
German gunners in action with heavy artillery near Verdun, north eastern France, during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

East Surrey Regiment kick footballs
Soldiers of the East Surrey regiment advance through heavy fire towards enemy lines, kicking footballs as they go. The footballs were provided as a means of encouraging the men to attack

Wotan at the Pyre
Wotan bids farewell to his daughter Brunnhilde as she sleeps a magic sleep surrounded by a magic fire which only a true hero can penetrate (Sigfried does it !)

French Fireman 1850
French firemen - (sapeurs-pomiers) Date: 1850

Mansell Crackers box label design
Label design for a box of Mansell Christmas crackers featuring a cosy festive indoor scene with twinkling Christmas tree and a cosy armchair by a roaring fire

Brest-Litovsk buildings burn
Buildings on fire in the city of Brest-Litovsk. The city was captured by German forces in December 1915, and in March 1918 was the scene of the signing of a treaty which ended the war between Russia

Turkish Troops - Gallipoli
Turkish troops - Gallipoli - firing down on allied positions from high in the mountains

Curtain Fire
A coy red-haired temptress hides her modesty behind a curtain

Flight Lieut. Nicholson winning the Victoria Cross; Second W
Illustration showing Flight Lieutenant James Brindley Nicholson shooting down a Messerschmitt 110 fighter-bomber over Southampton on 16th August 1940

Fire-Crested Wren
FIRE-CRESTED WREN (Regulus ignicapillus) sometimes called the FIRECREST An irregular visitor to Britain

Firing Ship Guns
The crew of a British ship fire shells from a deck gun and are greeted by a vision of Horatio Nelson, the naval hero of years gone by

Printemps Store Aflame
Printemps Department Store in flames, Paris

Cooking Crepes 1911
A French family watch mama toss crepes in a pan by the fire

Chabert / Fire King
MONSIEUR CHABERT Showman entertainer, known as The Fire King

Girl has Fairy Dreams
A small girl sleeping by the fire with her dolly dreams of the joys of Christmas Day

Singing Round Camp Fire
The round-up camp - cowboys play the guitar and accordian round the camp fire

Abbots Leigh church after the fire
Engraving of the church in Abbots Leigh near Bristol, which suffered a fire on 20th February 1848. The fire was thought to have originated from the flues of a stove becoming over-heated

Scottish Cottage Inter
An old Scots peasant sits by the fire in the kitchen of his simple home

Bremen Launched
In her heyday this fine German liner wins the Atlantic record, but in WW2 she becomes a naval accommodation ship, destroyed by fire in 1941

Ordeal by Fire & Water
A stage magician performs a feat of being immersed in fire and water

C17th Fire Engine / Dutch
An early fire engine in use in Holland. The first flexible hose was invented by Jan van der Heijden in 1672 in the Netherlands, and a pre-cursor of this may be shown here

Motor Fire-Boat / London
The Beta III one of the London Fire Brigades several fire-boats, constructed by Merryweathers in 1926

Electric Fire Engine
Merryweathers electrically propelled fire-engine, which enabled 12 men to travel on the vehicle

PIANO-TYPE FIRE ENGINE
Piano type manual fire-engine, named after a resemblance of the shape of the bodywork to that instrument. Nozzles and branch-pipes were carried on brackets on the main frame

Quadricycle Hose-Carrier
Merryweathers Quadricycle first-aid hose-carrier, consisting of two tandem bicycles suitably connected, between which was a carriage for fire-brigade implements Date: 1895

Steam Fire Engine
Canterburys steam fire- engine, built be Messrs Merryweather & sons, of Greenwich

FOULIS GAS FIRE / 1889
Foulis Patent Regenerative Gas fire, supplied by the Carron Company. Universally admitted to be the most efficient gas fires by the trade both at home and abroad

Smoking Fish
Smoking fish, in France. The fish are hung inside the chimney over the fire

Late C18 Fire Engine
Known as a bed-poster, this London engine is a manual machine worked by pumping handles on either side : a Beadle and a Watchman are in official attendance

London Fireman 1750
A London fireman stands beside his engine : he is employed by an insurance company, the Hand-in-hand whose uniform he wears

Stage Effects - Fire
Victorian stage managers went to remarkable lengths to achieve realism on the stage - here, one tries to simulate the Great Fire of London

Royal Exchange (Original
Inspired by the bourse at Antwerp, Thomas Gresham built the first Royal Exchange at Cornhill, City of London; it was destroyed in the Fire of London, 1666

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