Catalogue description Album No.13. Includes material as follows: - Display by Bedford Modern School Fire...
This record is held by Bedfordshire Archives
Reference: | FS D/PC/14 |
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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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