Ladders Collection (page 3)

London Fire Brigade extended ladder with a man standing near the top. (2 of 2) Date: circa 1930s

London Fire Brigade operating extended ladder
London Fire Brigade operating an extended ladder. Date: circa 1920s

London Fire Brigade at work in a narrow street
London Fire Brigade at work with an extended ladder in a narrow street, probably in the City of London. Date: circa 1920s

LFB turntable ladders in use at Hackney fire
Firefighters in action at Messrs Woolf, a furniture store in Hackney, East London. Date: 1949

A firefighter with a Merryweather wheeled ladder escape
A firefighter with a wheeled ladder escape, Merryweathers Police Fire Ladders. Date: circa 1890s

Firefighters and policemen climbing a ladder, while a woman and girl stand in the open doorway below. Date: circa 1910s

LCC-LFB Hanwell Fire Brigade prizewinners
LCC-LFB Hanwell Fire Brigade winners of shield, 1st Prize at Crystal Palace 1904 Demonstration and Grand Fete, 17 August 1904. Date: 1904

LCC-LFB Leyland Metz 100 foot turntable ladder
Lambeths (D61) turntable ladder on display in a park. The hose line, when the TL is used as a water tower, is lying over the side of the extending ladders ready for use. Date: circa 1950s

LCC-MFB horse drawn escape cart and ladder
A horse-drawn 50ft wheeled escape ladder. These could be very quickly slipped by the crew and extended up to a window. Their sole purpose was rescue, and these units

Warehouse building in Mare Street, Hackney, after a fire
Warehouse building in Mare Street, Hackney, East London, after a fire. Date: circa 1940s

Firefighters at scene of fire, Stockwell Road, Brixton
Firefighters in action at the scene of a fire in Stockwell Road, Brixton, SW London. Date: 2005

LFDCA-LFB Simon Snorkel hydraulic platform in use
LFDCA-LFB Simon Snorkel hydraulic platform and other vehicles in use at the scene of a fire in January 1997. Date: 1997

LCC-LFB horse drawn vehicles outside a fire station, with crew on board, and policemen standing on either side. Date: circa 1900s

LFB-LCC fire brigade ladder drill, with the heights marked on the wall. Date: circa 1900s

LCC-MFB station yard with men and appliances. Date: circa 1900s

LCC-MFB wheeled escape cart in a station yard. Date: circa 1900s

Threshing chestnuts trees in Greenwich Park 1857
Yearly tradition, for three weeks young youths poured into Greenwich Park, London to collect conkers. Climbing up chestnut trees, even using ladders to reach their prize

Hundred Years War, storming a fort
Siege of a castle, in the Hundred Years War. Date: circa 1380s

TWO MEN UP LADDERS
Two sign guilders at work on a large commercial building in Berlin, Germany. The angle the picture was taken makes the perspective of the photograph appear distorted. Date: 1933

GYMNASTICS, 1830S
French youths engaged in gymnastic exercises on ropes, ladders and bars Date: 1830s

Two thatchers East Coker, Somerset, England
Two thatchers at work up ladders on the thatched roof of a cottage in the village of East Coker, near Yeovil, South Somerset. See also Picture No. 12445700 Date: 1989

Thatching, East Coker, Somerset
Two thatchers at work up ladders on the thatched roof of a cottage in the village of East Coker, near Yeovil, South Somerset. First published The Sunday Times Date: 1989

Thatching Isaac Walton Cottage - 2
Thatchers at work on the roof of Isaac Walton Cottage, Stafford, England. First published The Daily Telegraph Date: 1990

Thatching Isaac Walton Cottage -3
Thatchers at work on the roof of Isaac Walton Cottage, Stafford, England. First published The Daily Telegraph Date: 1990

Thatching Isaac Walton Cottage - 1
Thatchers at work on the roof of Isaac Walton Cottage, Stafford, England. First published The Daily Telegraph Date: 1990

Boys build mountain at school, Seaford, East Sussex
Boys build a pyramid-shaped mountain at their school in Seaford, East Sussex, in order to learn how to rock climb. Date: circa 1960s

Turnout by fire crews and appliances outside their station

Scene of a fire at Tiffin Girls School, Richmond Road, Kingston upon Thames

London Fire Brigade, Lacon ladders in use at house fire
Two 13.5 metre ladders being used to assist people to safety.at a fire involving a five storey terraced house in Clapham Common South Side, SW London

LCC-LFB Dual purpose pump escape at Southwark HQ
A Dennis pump ladder and crew. The Dennis pumps were introduced in 1934-5. This pump saw service in the Blitz and continued peacetime service until it was withdrawn in 1955

GLC-LFB Turntable ladder overturned on roadway
Lack of stability at speed and when manoeuvring very occasionally resulted in fire engines overturning, because of the relatively high centre of gravity (loading) of the turntable ladder

GLC-LFB 50 foot wheeled escape ladder
A Morris style 50 foot wheeled escape ladder parked in the fire brigade workshops at Lambeth. When not carried on fire engines escape ladders were normally stored in this fashion

LCC-LFB A diesel AEC-Merryweather Dennis pump
Pictured at the Brigade Headquarters drill yard, Lambeth SE1, a dual purpose appliance which for some reason does not have any hosereels!

LCC-LFB A motorised Dennis pump escape
The adoption of motorised fire engines by the LFB led to a reduction in the number of stations required. A report produced in the 1920s recommended the closure of some 15 fire stations

LCC-LFB 50 foot wheeled escape ladder in use
A wheeled escape ladder being used in the bridged position as a crane whilst LFB crews undertake a rescue, by line, from the basement area of a building under demolition

LCC-LFB Bromptons Dennis pump at Lambeth HQ
Station A8 was Brompton fire station. Here its dual-purpose petrol Dennis pump is seen standing at Lambeth headquarters

Horse drawn turntable-ladder at LFB HQ, Southwark
The turntable-ladder was introduced into the London Fire Brigade in 1905 and could be extended to a height of 85 feet. The ladders were self supporting

NFS training / instructional photo, a hose becket, WW2
An instructional photo showing a hose becket in use, securing a line of charged hose to a fire brigade ladder just below the open drill tower window

Medieval French Mining
A coal mine in France during the medieval era, showing the ladders that the miners use to descend to the coal face

Railway Station, Peshawar Cantonment, British India
Railway Station, Peshawar, Peshawar Cantonment, British India (now in Pakistan). Date: circa 1920

Shopping street, Bangalore, Karnataka, India. Date: circa 1910

Advert for W. Summerscales & Sons, Victorian items 1888
General Engineers, Corey Lane Works and Phoenix Foundry, Keighley, England. Selection of items for interior and exterior use including, patent Sundale copying press, patent perfect washer

Law Courts and old fort, Mombasa, Kenya, East Africa
Law Courts and old Portuguese fort, Mombasa, Kenya, British East Africa. Date: circa 1908

Blitz in London -- ladders and rubble, WW2
Blitz in London -- ladders and rubble in a street. Date: 1940s

LCC-LFB Morris-Magirus solid tyre turntable ladder
The increasing need for ladders capable of reaching beyond the scope of the standard wheeled escape saw the introduction of the fist horse drawn turntable ladder in the late 1890s

LCC-LFB Metz 100 foot turntable ladder at drills
A Metz-Leyland 85 foot turntable ladder at drill at the Headquarters station, Southwark SE1

A London Fire brigade wheeled ladder escape vehicle
Outside the London County Council boundary, Penge, to the south of London, was one of many fire brigades which had just one fire station covering its geographical area

LCC-LFB rescue drills at Brigade HQ
Two escape ladders and two hook ladders at work on the Headquarters main drill tower and firefighters performing rescues by carrying down and lowering by line using live casualties

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