FSD/PC1

Unnumbered Album

1943 to 1976

From: 1943 To: 1976

Items covered include: - article from Shoreham Herald (1945) re T B Goodman (later Beds CFO) winning a gallantry medal for fighting a fire on an ammunition ship in 1941; - civil defence exercise re fallout from a hydrogen bomb dropped on Northern England (1958); - fire at "Cyril Bates", corner of Midland Road and Gwyn Street, Bedford [see FSD/RR 1/45] (1964); - article on the beginnings of Luton Fire Brigade (1966); - coverage of the petrol tanker explosion at Westoning in 1976 [see FSD/RR 1/143].

4

sub-series

Bedfordshire Fire & Rescue Service,
Goodman, Thomas Bertram,
Cyril Bates Limited

fire brigades, local fire brigades, Bedfordshire Fire & Rescue Service, newspaper cuttings, PRESS, newsletters, newspapers, The News, scrapbooks, photograph album, photographs, report, Shoreham, Chief Fire Officer, medals, ships, civil defence, civil defence fire, bombs, Bedford Midland Road, Bedford Gwyn Street, Luton Fire Brigade, LUTON, petroleum, WESTONING