Images Dated 3rd October 2011

LFB wartime emergency appliance and trailer pump, WW2

A Fordson Unit and trailer pump at the London Fire Brigade headquarters, Lambeth. These were just some of the 2000 adapted vehicles utilised as AFS fire appliances. With their trailer pumps they were widely used by the AFS in London during the blitz. The picture shows the crew in the vehicle and hose stored on the trailer pump

© London Fire Brigade / Mary Evans Picture Library

Point Royal DP137909

Point Royal, Rectory Lane, Easthampstead, Bracknell, Berkshire. General view of the tower block. 18 storey point block with circular partly underground parking garage. 1961-64. Designed by Philip Dowson and Derek Sugden of Arup Associates. Grade II; List Entry Number: 1390361

Concrete, Modern, Post War, Residential, Tall, Tower

HMS Edinburgh in the Patagonian Canal, South America

HMS Edinburgh has passes through the Patagonian Canal on transit to her next port of call, Valparaiso, Chile.
HMS Edinburgh has been deployed on the Atlantic Patrol Task (South) since May 2011. En route to the South Atlantic she has conducted a number of high profile regional visits including Luanda in Angola and South Georgia.
Since arriving in the South Atlantic she has provided support and reassurance to the British South Atlantic Overseas Territories. HMS Edinburgh has now completed her mid-deployment maintenance period in South Africa to ensure she remains fully operationally capable for the remainder of the deployment

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