Fire Stations Gallery

LCC-LFB Tooley Street fire station and its crews

Built in 1879, and located at 165 Tooley Street, this station remained operational until 1928 when the new Dockhead fire station was opened and the engines and crews transferred there. This building still stands in Tooley Street today. A Dennis pump and pump escape are pictured and a child can be seen at a first floor window (the firemen lived at the station along with their families)

© London Fire Brigade / Mary Evans Picture Library

LCC-MFB Waterloo fire station

Located in the then Waterloo Bridge Road (No 142), Waterloo fire station was built in 1866. It was one of the first stations of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade, which took over from the London Fire Engine Establishment the same year. The station was demolished in the 1900s to make way for the new Waterloo fire station, built on the same site

© London Fire Brigade / Mary Evans Picture Library

LCC-LFB Vauxhall fire station, Lambeth, SE London

Built by the London County Council (LCC), Vauxhall fire station opened in 1902 and was located on the Albert Embankment (Vauxhall Bridge end). In January 1918 this station suffered one of the worst disasters in the London Fire Brigade when several firefighters died at a fire on the Albert Embankment. Four came from Vauxhall (Station No 94), two from Kennington and one from Clapham. The station closed in 1937 when the new London Fire Brigade Headquarters and Lambeth fire station opened at the eastern end of the Albert Embankment

© London Fire Brigade / Mary Evans Picture Library