Fire Service
Above: The New Station of 1985
Left: The Fire Station of 1902
At sometime before 1902 the headquarters of the Fire Brigade were behind
Mr Hedley
's shop at 92 High Street, so probably in a barn near Robert
Marriott's Farm
. [see
1924 news clip
]
Fire Service History
Question of New Engine 1905
Long Service Awards
Long Service Awards 1939
The First Fire Brigade 1877
New Engine 1907
Fire Service 1920s
The service in 1950s
Fire Brigade 1888
New Engine 1907 arrives
New Engines 1922 + 1927
Firemen
Fully Equipped 1889
Jubilee 1927
Fire Drills 1903
Volunteer Fire Brigade c1889
“Valentine’s Fire Protector”
Wartime AFS
blaze - coins found
Fire Brigade Scheme 1899
New Engine - 1911
National Fire Service
Mr G R Turner
Local Board Minutes 1890-95
Fire Brigade Drill
Memories of the NFS
Snippets
Competitions
Minute Book 1903-1919
1901 enquiry
Mr Fred Knight
Minute Book 1926-1942
c1980
New Fire Escape 1901
Mr R F Knight
Minute Book 1943-1945
Site for the New Station
Opening the Fire Station 1902
Mr Albert Timpson
Minute Book 1946-1951
Building the New Fire Station
Fire Report & Fires 1903
Officer Maurice Hollis
Minute Book 1952-1959
Opening New Station 1985
New Engine 1904
Accident G R Turner
Fire Station Visit 1950
Opening - Photographs
CWS Fire Brigade
(in Shoetrade)
Index of Fires