Water squirt, brass and wood, c.1700
Leather bucket used by insurance fire brigades, c.1700 to 1750
Leather hose
Water grenade, 19th century.
Wooden model of Royal Society for the Protection of Life from Fire wheeled escape ladder, c.1838
Stand pipes, steel, brass, copper, c.1810 to 1920 and c.1875
Shand Mason hydrant, iron c. 1890s
Breathing Apparatus, smoke helmet and bellows, c.1900
Breathing Apparatus, Salvus set, 1920s
Emergency tender crew wearing experimental red Merryweather helmets and Proto Breathing Apparatus sets, 1935
Fire alarm posts. Left - telephone alarm direct to fire station, right - break glass alarm
Breathing Apparatus, Proto set mark four, 1930s
Gas drill at West Ham Fire Station, c.1938
Tool for picking up Incendiary devices, c.1940s
Stirrup pump from World War Two
Fireman wearing a full protective asbestos suit and carrying a carbon dioxide fire extinguisher, World War Two
Breathing Apparatus, Proto set with Southampton Communications set, 1960s
Breathing Apparatus, proto set mark five, 1960s
Breathing Apparatus stage two control board, 1960s
Hoses stowed in an F108 fire engine
Siebe Gorman Airmaster compressed air Breathing Apparatus, 1970s
Fire alarm control panel, enables firefighters to locate fires in large buildings 1970s
ADU (Audible Distress Unit): gas type torch, Positive Pressure Compressed Air Breathing Apparatus, 1990s
Firefighters using light alloy ladders wearing Draeger Breathing Apparatus sets
Draeger Breathing Apparatus set, ADU, Cromwell 600 helmet, personal radio communication equipment and gas type torch
Current Chemical Protection Suits (CPS)
Current Breathing Apparatus control officer's tabard
Current 'Duraline' hose, plastic, Dutch rolled.
