The Lambeth Fire Station is the former headquarters of the

London Fire Brigade The London Fire Brigade (LFB) is the fire and rescue service for London, the capital of the United Kingdom. It was formed by the Metropolitan Fire Brigade Act 1865, under the leadership of superintendent Eyre Massey Shaw. It has 5,992staff, in ...

. It is a Moderne-style building built in 1937. It included a drill tower, behind, built at the same time. It also included a ramp to a water-level station for

fireboats A fireboat or fire-float is a specialized watercraft with pumps and nozzles designed for fighting shoreline and shipboard fires. The first fireboats, dating to the late 18th century, were tugboats, retrofitted with firefighting equipmen ...

. The building is a

Grade II listed building In the United Kingdom, a listed building or listed structure is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, in Wales, and the Northern Irel ...

Gallery

File:Lambeth fire station.jpg, Building frontage File:Lambeth, London Fire Brigade Headquarters drill tower - geograph.org.uk - 832475.jpg, Drill tower, where exercises could be watched by hundreds from balconies on the headquarters building File:Lambeth River Fire Station - geograph.org.uk - 832587.jpg, Lambeth River Fire Station, with the Firedart, in 2008

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Fire stations in the United Kingdom Grade II listed buildings in the London Borough of Lambeth Buildings and structures completed in 1937 {{London-struct-stub