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Minutes of a meeting of the Bedford Borough Fire Brigade Committee

6 Jul 1939

From: 1939 To: 1939

topics dealt with including the following: - tenders for a Fire Tender; - discussion on a suitable location for the storage of Auxiliary Fire Service appliances, no decision being reached; - discussion of suitable site for the building of a new Fire Station, the existing premises in Mill Street being considered too small; resolved that Borough Engineer and Chief Fire Officer to investigate the following sites: St.Cuthbert's Square and Old Rectory; The Laundry, Goldington Road; and The Drill Ground, Newnham Avenue; - repair of the roof of 36 Mill Street; - approval of suggestion of Chief Fire Officer to charge 10/- to businesses in receipt of a Fire Protection lecture or demonstration; - sending of a representative to British Fire Week; - Chief Fire Officer's statement that he would meet with his counterparts from Luton, Letchworth and Northampton to draft proposals for submission to Technical Sub-Committee of Conference of Fire Authorities on mutual aid; - suggested arrangements between the Borough and Rural District Council re paying for Brigade under Bedford Rural District Council Protection Agreement; - arrangement for temporary firemen to cover for permanent firemen during their six weeks of annual leave; - purchase of a second-hand lorry to train drivers of Auxiliary Fire Service; - revision of scheme for Auxiliary Fire Service; - participation of AFS members in National Service Rally; - authorisation of ARP and RAF exercises; - tentative agreement for telephonic installations at Mill Street Fire Station and Auxiliary Fire Stations; - selection of premises to be action stations as follows: Fox & Hounds PH, Goldington Road; 2 Pemberley Avenue; Angel Hotel Garage, Haynes Road; St.John's Place; Queen's Engineering Works; and Clarendon Street; - appointment of additional Auxiliary fireman and claim for Home Office grant; - decision not to fence off of Newnham Drill Ground to prevent trespass andconsideration of erection of a building at the Drill Ground for storage of pumps etc; necessity of appointing of one or two more whole-time professional firemen.

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Conference of Fire Authorities,
Auxiliary Fire Service

Auxiliary Fire Service, local fire brigades, civil defence, RAF, fire stations, laundries, Bedford Borough, parsonages, Bedford Rural District Council, lorries, telephone, Bedford Fox & Hounds, Bedford Angel Hotel, fire brigades personnel, fire precautions, fire appliances, BEDFORD, Bedford Mill Street, Bedford St.Cuthbert's Square, Bedford Goldington Road, Bedford Newnham Avenue, LUTON, Letchworth, Northampton, Bedford Pemberley Avenue, Bedford Haynes Road, Bedford St.John's Place, Bedford Clarendon Street, Bedford Queens Engineering Works