Historic Photos

999 CBU 1963 Bedford TK PE Oldham Seen in 1973. Originally built as a Pump Escape, it spent its life as a Water Tender, before becomi...

Northumberland - HoC - MNL 786 Taken during the mid 1960s - this would be the Hexham machine when on standby at Wallsend during a t...

Northumberland - HoC - LJR 395 + TrP As promised, here's a shot I took circa 1972-73, showing LJR 395 at Alnwick, when it was operative a...

Durham - WrT - YPT 695 Here's the shot of YPT 695 when it was at the six-pump farm job that I mentioned.

Newcastle & Gateshead - PE - HVK 478D Here's a shot of the now long gone AEC Marquis/Merryweather PE showing the unusual colour scheme tha...

Northumberland - ET - KJR 135 Seen here at the long closed Newburn station, and back in pre-1974 days when in use as an ET.

Northumberland - ET - MNL 785 Seen here sat Morpeth, this shows MNL 785 in its converted state

Northumberland - Unique shot This one is truly unique, showing two of the Karrier ETs on standby at Walsend during a 10 pump fire...

Commer and TrP. Brighouse Car Auctions many moons ago. I have not see the Commer or the TP since but it must be lurk...

Thornycroft Sun VXN 869 This was pictured at Harrogate during a period when it appeared at several vintage vehicle rallies.

Newcastle & Gateshead - P - SVK 420 This one was on reserve whhen photographed about 1969.

Newcastle & Gateshead - Turnout Pilgrim Stret (Newcastle Central) circa 1964. This shows the P and TL turning out to a complete an ...

Fire Engines Photos