This rather striking silhouette with St Pauls’ Cathedral in the background, is the National Firefighters Memorial.
Located just north of the Millenium Bridge it was originally intended for those brave men and women who turned out night after night during the blitz of 1940/41 to extinguish the fires left in the wake of 57 consecutive nights of German bombing
In 1998 it was decided to make the memorial a national monument that would commemorate not just the firefighters who died in World War II, but the lives of all firefighters throughout the United Kingdom killed in the line of duty.
A moving service of remembrance is held at the memorial annually on the Sunday closest to 7 September, the anniversary of the start of the Blitz.
