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LFB and London Salvage Corps at a serious fireWith 25 pumps attending a serious fire at Eversholt House, 163 Eversholt Street, NW1, the London Salvage Corps bring in reinforcements to deal with the effects of firefighting operations
Playing a piano amid the destruction - The BlitzOne of the men working on debris clearance in London succeeded in wresting a tune from this battered piano - circa late 1940
Salvage operation in Victoria Park Road, East London, WW2Salvage operation in Victoria Park Road, East London, following a flying bomb explosion, 19 June 1944. Date: 1944
Scapa Flow, salvaging Battleship Baden
Salvaging German battleship Baden, Scapa Flow, Orkney, June 1919
Salvaging German Destroyer G102, Scapa Flow, Orkney, June 1919
Scapa Flow, Salvaging destroyer G102
Bomb damage in a London suburb, WW2Bomb damage in a London suburb during the Second World War (23 August 1940). Bombs were dropped in the early hours of the morning
Salvage operations, sunken submarine M2Salvage operations on the sunken submarine M2, September 1932. 1932
WW2 - Home Front - Schoolchildren in Chelsea, London take part in a paper-salvage campaign, carrying a total of two tonnes of paper from their school in Glebe Place to the Kings Road
Robert Morrison, 1940Robert Morrison, Labour MP for Tottenham, at a salvage depot amid a mass of waste-paper being put towards the war effort. Morrison was made Chairman of the inter-departmental committee on salvaging
NFS personnel in salvage operation, WW2NFS overseas personnel in a salvage operation, helping to remove furniture from damaged houses, 27 June 1944. Date: 1944
Blitz in London - Shell Mex, Fulham, WW2London firemen at work at Shell Mex, Townmead Road, Fulham, following a bombing raid, 23 February 1944. In the foreground are salvaged drums of lubricant which have been extinguished. Date: 1944
Salvaging furniture from damaged homes, London, WW2Firefighters helping residents to salvage furniture from their damaged homes, London, 2 July 1944, Second World War. Date: 1944
British soldiers salvaging near Bapaume, WW1British soldiers salvaging materials on a battlefield near Bapaume, France, on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916
Salvaging a Fishing BoatMen salvaging a Ramsgate fishing smack which has run aground at Herne Bay, Kent, England, refloating it with barrels of air. Date: early 1930s
NFS (Salvage Corps) working at a fire, WW2Salvage workers from Cannon Street fire station sub-station A2Z.2X (Watling Street) undertaking salvage work at a Waltham Cross warehouse fire
NFS (London Region) Salvage Corps at work, WW2Although financed by Insurance companies, the London Salvage Corps were amalgamated into the National Fire Service (London Region) but maintained their primary salvage role
NFS (London Region) Salvage Corps in action, WW2The London Salvage Corps was not part of the London Fire Brigade but operated in harmony with it. It came under the umbrella of the NFS during WW2
Chinese man, Tank Corps workshop, Teneur, France, WW1A Chinese worker salvaging tank track plates at the British Tank Corps Central Workshops, Teneur, northern France, during the First World War. Date: 1917
London bomb damageResidents from the bomb damaged street, peer through a huge whole in their house, viewing the utter destruction caused by Goerings men, and salvaging clothes and blankets from the ruins
French cavalrymen 1918French cavalrymen examining a pill box, trench mortar and shells, gas alarm horn and other trophies taken by the 29th Division at Gheluvelt on the Western Front in Belgium during World War I in
Towed Derelict TorpedoRecovery of a lost torpedo by a fishing boat or patrol vessel. Finders received 5 pounds for salvaging derelict torpedoes and returning them to the Admiralty authorities
Salvaging BattleshipsSalvaging German battleships at Scapa Flow