Manual Gallery

GLC-LFB - Dual purpose pump fire engine

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. The pump from Euston fire station (A23) seen here is a Dennis Rolls Royce petrol driven manual appliance

© London Fire Brigade / Mary Evans Picture Library

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Welsh women road builders, South Wales

A group of twenty Welsh women road builders in Pembrokeshire, Dyfed, South Wales, holding their spades. They built the road to Hook in 1903-4 to facilitate transport to the colliery. They also worked at the colliery itself and gathered boughs which were used as pit props, for which they were paid ninepence per hundredweight "

© Mary Evans / Roger Worsley Archive

George Beaumont with manual fire engine, Pinner

George Beaumont, Chief Officer of the Pinner Voluntary Fire Brigade, with a manual fire engine which was kept at Waxwell Lane, Pinner, having previously been housed at The Hall, and later at The George. Date: 1890

© London Fire Brigade / Mary Evans Picture Library

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