Mile Gallery

MFB and LCC-LFB Mile End fire station, East London

Built by the Metropolitan Fire Brigade in 1866, this station was passed to the LCC-London Fire Brigade in 1889 when the LCC was created. Located at Frimley Street in the East End of London it closed in 1902 when a replacement Mile End fire station was erected in Mile End Road. The station pictured was built for a horse drawn steamer, hence the 50ft wheeled escape ladder being stored by the side of the station.

© London Fire Brigade / Mary Evans Picture Library

Lady members of the Heston Park flying club

A 3000 mile holiday tour by air by members of the Heston Park flying club, including a number of women pilots, set out from Heston Air Park (Aerodrome) in twenty aircraft. The photo shows (from left to right): Mrs Chalmers, Mrs Spencer Cleaver (Adelaide Franklin Cleaver (nee Pollock) (1885-1939)), Sir Sefton Brancker, Miss Norman (daughter of Sir Henry Norman) and Miss Leathart. Date: 17 April 1930

1930

© The Peter Butt Aviation Collection / Mary Evans Picture Library

A mile-long KFOR invasion column stretching from the border

A mile-long KFOR invasion column stretching from the border between Macedonia and Kosovo to the Kosovo plains.One of 48 colour photographs taken by Sgt David John Miles, a reservist who volunteered to serve with 4 Armoured Brigade as Brigade photographer under the direction of Media Ops, Kosovo, 1999.Part of a collection of items relating to the service of Sgt Miles as a photographer in the Gulf and Kosovo.These items were previously shown in the exhibition, ?Kosovo - a personal view?, at Worthing Museum and Art Gallery, 21 Oct 2000-20 Jan 2001. Date: 1999

© The National Army Museum / Mary Evans Picture Library