In 2014 North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue decided to close its central York fire station on Clifford Street and build a new one on nearby Kent Street. These photographs show the site prior to development, the work in progress building the new station and finally the finished station. It officially opened in July 2014 at a cost of £2.3m.

KX05 ??? Southern Fire and Rescue miniature fire engine. The vehicle is used for event cover, corporate team building and kids parties

N640 XTO Southern Fire and Rescue Dennis Rapier which previously saw service with Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service at Beeston and Highfields

AE07 HVP London Fire Brigade Mercedes Benz Atego 1325F Pump Ladder at Leytonstone fire station. Also shown is the plaque from when the building was opened in 1914. 100 years later, in 2014, the building closed for demolition and rebuilding.

RX04 BUJ London Fire Brigade Mercedes Benz Atego Pump Ladder based at Harold Hill Fire Station. Also showing the plaque showing it was opened in 2010 and the indoor RTC training area.

BX57 BOU, RX53 KXK, AE07 HWH The line up of appliances at Dagenham Fire Station. The station closed in November 2014 for a year to allow this old building to be demolished and a new fire station built on the same site.

BX57 BOU London Fire Brigade Mercedes Econic / GB Fire Aerial Ladder Platform based at Dagenham – also showing the appliance on a blue light run

WV59 PXZ London Fire Brigade Mercedes Benz Actros 6×4 (with Moffat Mounty fork lift truck) Bulk Foam Unit

WN60 AYA London Fire Brigade Mercedes Atego Hose Layer Unit

WX07 EEM London Fire Brigade Mercedes Atego Command Support Unit

AE07 HWA London Fire Brigade Mercedes Benz Atego 1325F Pump Ladder based at Barking

HV60 URW London Fire Brigade Mercedes Benz Sprinter Brigade Distribution Centre (BDC) Distribution Van

AE57 FMZ London Fire Brigade Mercedes Atego 1328F Fire Rescue Unit

AE57 FNC London Fire Brigade Mercedes Benz Atego 1325F Pump Ladder based at East Ham

London Fire Brigade’s Beckton training centre. It is privately run to save the brigade money. It was opened by mayor Boris Johnson in June 2014. The entirely indoor training centre has control units, a large mural, smoke training rooms and collapsed buildings for USAR training. The BMW 1-series pictured has just 6 miles on the clock. It was donated by BMW as they couldn’t sell it because engineering students had dismantled it and reassembled it a number of times.

Images from a virtual fire scene. These are projected onto a wall and are used for training by London’s firefighters at their Beckon training centre. The controllers of the ‘game’ in a neighbouring room can throw in changes to the scenario at will. For example they could make a nearby car burst in to flames or make the fire spread quickly into adjoining buildings.

AE07 HVN London Fire Brigade Mercedes Benz Atego Pump Ladder based at the picturesque Woodford fire station

L231 XVC Eastern Fire and Rescue Land Rover Discovery Carrying the logo of the British Fire Services Association. The team provide event fire and film cover services in East Suffolk