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Firefighter working at scene of fire at New CrossFirefighter working at the scene of a fire at New Cross, London SE14
Firefighters at fire in Isleworth, West LondonFirefighters in action with hosepipes at a fire in Isleworth, West London
LCC-LFB Period fire display at Southwark HQLondon firefighters putting on a weekly display for the public at Southwark, Brigade Headquarters. They are using a Victorian manual fire pump in a reenactment of the days of horse drawn fire engines
LCC-LFB Fire scene in a London streetThe hose lines indicate a serious fire has occurred, requiring at least two jets to bring it under control, but little evidence of what actually happened
Drawing of MFB fire float and tug on the River ThamesA drawing of a Metropolitan Fire Brigade fire float and tug heading to a riverside blaze in the distance. The fire float was a fire pump mounted in a barge that could supply water to the land via
LCC-LFB fireboat Massey Shaw in actionThe Massey Shaw fireboat at its first major riverside warehouse fire on the River Thames. The Colonial Wharf fire in Wapping High Street E1 occurred on 27 September 1935
LCC-LFB fireboat Massey Shaw demonstrates pumpingMoored 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
LFB fireboat Massey Shaw tackling a warehouse fireThe Massey Shaw fireboat at its first major riverside warehouse fire on the River Thames. The Colonial Wharf fire in Wapping High Street E1 occurred on 27 September 1935
NFS (London Region No 5) pump escape and crew, WW2The pump escape from the Regional Headquarters fire station Lambeth in the headquarters drill yard. The escape has been removed and the rear mounted pump is being operated
NFS (London Region) AFS exercise, WW2Firefighters practise using their hoses in an NFS (London Region) AFS exercise
Blitz in London -- St Katherines Dock, Port of London, WW2Blitz in London -- two turntable ladders at work and firefighters directing their jets of water at the warehouse fire in St Katherines Dock, Port of London
Auxiliary firefighters at drill, Lambeth HQ, WW2Auxiliary crews from station 75W (Shelborne Road School sub station in Holloway) getting to work with a trailer pump and jets in the drill yard of Brigade Headquarters
LFB trailer pump competition at Brigade HQ, Lambeth, WW2Two trailer pump crews engaged in a competition in the headquarters drill yard. The trailer pump had to be set into the water in the emergency inflatable dams
Balloon ascent from St Cloud, Paris
Scouts at Heathrow AirportMr Trevor Scott-Chard and London Air Scouts at London Heathrow Airport with British Overseas Airways Corporation Boeing Stratocruiser Canopus behind them. 1950
Schloss Hellbrunn, AustriaHellbrunn Palace (Schloss Hellbrunn) - an early Baroque villa of palatial size, near Morzg, a southern district of the city of Salzburg, Austria
Jets to clear snow drifts in Wales in 1947Men engaged in fitting jet units to the rear of a wagon on a snow encrusted stretch of line near Brecon, an ingenious way of clearing the disabling snow drifts preventing trains carrying coal
Experiment with jets to clear away snow in Wales, 1947Jet engines or gas turbines, acting like blow lamps, eat their way through the snow as a truck advances down the railway line in the hills of South Wales
Hydraulic Propellors of HMS Waterwitch, November 1866Engraving of HMS Waterwitch and her hydraulic propellors, from the Illustrated London News, 17th November 1866. Built in 1866 at Thames Ironworks, Blackwall
U. s. A. F. MississipiUnited States Air Force jets pursue a UFO which they compare to a tree trunk, over southern Mississippi
Industry / OilCrude oil jets from a derrick in Baku, Russia