New LFB pix

Fire at 298 Old Brompton Road, London SW5

Fire at 298 Old Brompton Road, London SW5, 25 February 1956. An escape ladder is extended to the second floor, with Sub Officer Kirby of A9 Fulham carrying a 19-month-old child, Dennis Norman McGowan, down in his arms, and Sub Officer Temple following. The child had been left in his cot in the front room before the fire started. At this stage the strings of the ladder were smouldering which, together with the heat and smoke from the shop, made the situation extremely dangerous. The child's mother waits in the foreground to be reunited with her son.

© London Fire Brigade / Mary Evans Picture Library

Steam engine with crew, Southgate, North London

Steam-driven fire engine with crew -- SDFB, Southgate District Council fire service. The date on the vehicle is 1894. The driver standing on the appliance is D Gibbons. Third from right is G Walton. The officer on the right is Jack Horn, killed in a munitions explosion in 1918. The vehicle eventually went to the Science Museum in South Kensington.

© London Fire Brigade / Mary Evans Picture Library

Blitz in London - Clarnico Factory, Hackney Wick, WW2

Scene of devastation at the Clarnico factory in Carpenter's Road, Hackney Wick, East London, following a bombing raid on 24 September 1940. Clarnico (Clarke, Nickolls and Coombs Limited) were a large confectionery company.

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