New LFB pix Gallery

LCC-LFB firefighters with old hose cart

Four LCC-LFB firefighters with a 60-year old hose cart, 17 August 1938. The cart was housed in the HQ in Cherry Garden Street. It still had its uses, carrying necessary equipment for firefighting and rescue work, including 300 feet of hose, axes, hand extinguishers and two hook ladders

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Scene inside London Underground tunnel after a crash

Scene inside a London Underground tunnel following an incident on 28 February 1975. A train had failed to stop at Moorgate station and had crashed into the wall at the end of the tunnel, killing 43 people. This photograph was taken on 3 March, when bodies were still being recovered. The last body to be removed was that of the driver, on 5 March

© London Fire Brigade / Mary Evans Picture Library

LCC-LFB motorised Hatfield type fire engine

A motorised Hatfield-type fire engine. The London Fire Brigade was introducing motorised fire engines and the last horse-drawn appliance (a turntable ladder) would be withdrawn in 1921. The adoption of motorised fire engines would lead to the closure of many fire stations which had used horse-drawn engines

© London Fire Brigade / Mary Evans Picture Library