I am dating a firefighter and would love to get some pics of working fire stations while in London. I have been told of one on Shaftesbury Ave and Euston ( near british library). I would appreciate more specific addresses. don't really want to go out of my way but if one is close would love to get a pic.

of course I plan to stop at the site of the Great Fire.....

thanks

hi oh2doula,

This may work: put in the address where you are staying (just the post code will work for UK) into http://maps.google.com/

Then use the directions from here function using just the words fire station. See if you get hits and then can pick locations and see directions.

After typing all that .. just put in fire station London UK into http://maps.google.com/ and see if you get hits.

Cheers

Try:

http://tinyurl.com/9838nt

http://www.london-fire.gov.uk/A-ZFireStations.asp

The "site" of the Great Fire? Which one? The Second Great Fire in 1940 involved a greater area than the first one, according to Wiki.

In 1666 it destroyed 13,200 houses, 87 churches, St. Paul's Cathedral and most of the city govt buildings.

You guys are THE best - thanks so much

By the site of the great fire I assume you mean Monument (which you can climb up if you can manage about 500 steps). It's as far away from Pudding Lane as it is high.

BTW I know you yanks are a bit odd about firestations and go and visit them and swap patches and the like. We don't do this so don't expect anything more than a polite smile.

thank you for the great info

only one Great Fire (other wise it could not have the word great or indeed grate). Worth reading Pepys to have a eye witness account of the disaster, still it seemed to sort out the Great Plague of London. Now when did the Dutch invade?

I've never heard of the Blitz, or any individual raid, being called the Second Great Fire either. Sounds like some journalist's invention that found its way onto the internet and got stuck.

Like Chunnel.

Now when did the Dutch invade?>>>

They didn't. However this didn't stop us hanging a retarded 12 year old Dutch boy for starting the fire.

Obviously no one would execute a retarded child these days would they?

Now the Dutch did invade they only stayed for a few days and only held Thames up to a certain point around Greenwhich. Still only a little thing

>>However this didn't stop us hanging a retarded 12 year old Dutch boy for starting the fire<<

I think you're confusing 1666 and 1933, and maybe something about dykes (but I'm not going there). In 1666 it was a French man who was - one assumes - tortured into confessing to having started the fire:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hubert

French/Dutch - they were both enemies at the time.

The bloke they hanged was a nutter. He confessed off his own bat despite not knowing anything about it.

If it's of any use, this place is just around the corner from where I work: http://www.london-se1.co.uk/places/l...brigade-museum