Appliance 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

GLC-LFB - Foam Tender at East Ham

The GLC-LFB was created on 1 April 1965. A series of photos was commissioned of each type of fire engine, either within or absorbed into the enlarged London Fire Brigade. A mechanical bulk foam tender from East Ham fire station (L21) is seen here at a fire station. The Bedford lorry with a foam tank on the back had its own fire pump and foam generator. Originally this fire engine was stationed in the West Ham fire brigade, whose stations were absorbed into the London Fire Brigade in 1965

© London Fire Brigade / Mary Evans Picture Library

Firefighters, Lostwithiel, Cornwall. September 1991

Lostwithiel firefighters gather for the retirement of three of their number in 1991. Standing, from left to right: Terry Sandercock, Karl Bowden, Francis Doney, Neil Savage, Malcolm Hicks, Peter Rowe, Ian Chanter, Jonathan Abbiss, Peter Ashwin. Seated, from left to right: Dave Couch, retiring; Dave Abbiss, retiring; Vic May, Station Officer; Jon Daniell, retiring. Photographed at the fire station on Bodmin Hill. In 1992 a new fire station was built on the old cattle market site. Photographer: Jonathan Barker

© RIC, photographer Jonathan Barker