Catalogue description Album No.13. Includes material as follows:   - Display by Bedford Modern School Fire...

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Details of FS D/PC/14
Reference: FS D/PC/14
Description:

Album No.13. Includes material as follows:

 

- Display by Bedford Modern School Fire Cadet Corps at FSHQ*;

 

- Fire at rubbish tip at Mill Lane, Aspley Guise during which a drum of cyanide was found*;

 

- Partially named group of Bedford Fire Brigade personnel involved in winning a cup for water pump drill, 1938*;

 

- Failure of Beds hotels to seek fire certificates;

 

- Adoption of foam for fire fighting by Beds FS*;

 

- Children of Houghton Regis Fire Club who set out to warn FS of fires and put small ones out*;

 

- Restoration of 1935 Dennis Fire Engine (reg.no. MJ 8870 ex Bedford and Luton brigades) by Henlow scrap dealer*;

 

- Firemen's union refusal to work with disaster team planned to replace Civil Defence corps;

 

- Fire at derelict Cauldwell House, Bedford*;

 

- Fire at thatched cottage, Coppice Mead, Stotfold*;

 

- Visit of SO Yip Lun Cheung of Hong Kong*;

 

- Rescue of fireman's son from tree by FS!*;

 

- Promotion of CFO Richards to be HMI with special responsibility for training*;

 

- Two, largely unnamed, photographs, one of estate workers at Wrest Park, Silsoe, the other of Wrest Park Estate Fire Brigade with their engine, both 1904*;

 

- Appointment of R.A.Haley as new Beds CFO*;

 

- Introduction of Simon Snorkel at Dunstable Fire Station*;

 

- Fire at Cornelius Company UK, Dallas Road, Bedford [see FS D/RR 1/67] in which nine firemen needed hospital treatment due to fumes*.

Date: 15 Apr 1972 - 30 Apr 1973
Held by: Bedfordshire Archives, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Immediate source of acquisition:

Acc.22667

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