Reference
FSD/PC4
Title
Album No. 3
Date free text
25 August 1959 to 18 November 1960
Production date
From: 1959 To: 1960
Scope and Content
Includes material as follows:
- photograph of Biggleswade Fire Station under construction;
- Fire Prevention Officer prevents cinema shows in a garage;
- inmate setting fire to part of H M Prison Bedford;
- articles in "Fire Prevention Review" and "Fire" re fire at Ashley Mills, Bedford [see FSD/RR 1/11];
- fire at Panda Hats, John Street, Luton;
- tramp trapped in a well near Kensworth;
- presentation of long service awards, with photograph showing G M Lightfoot, D E Todd and E Tarrant;
- murder investigation after death in a house fire at 1 Dane Street, Bedford, however verdict of accidental death by the pathologist;
- fence across a road to prevent through traffic in Caddington and the danger it caused by obstucting fire engines;
- fatal fire at 191-193 Clifton Road, Shefford [see FSD/RR 1/14];
- fatal fire at bungalow on Hemel Hempstead Road near Dagnall [see FSD/PH 5/26];
- fire in the Osborn Chapel, All Saints Church, Campton, and partial destruction of Jacobean screen between the vestry and chancel;
- fire at Woodside Cottage, Westoning;
- opening of new Biggleswade Fire Station [see FSD/PH 1/14];
- presentation of long service medals, photograph shows Stanley Inkersol, Dudley Bennett, R S Harrison and S L Boness;
- destruction by fire of Melchbourne Village Hall;
- photograph of I R Danes, R C Wilkinson, P A Collins, L M Cromwell, F W Lander, A J Jenner and D T Dorgan from Dunstable Fire Station who won Brigade pump drill competition;
- introduction of new safety jackets to M1 fire crew;
- fire-raising policeman, Gerald Perris, in Leighton Buzzard [see also FSD/F7/20];
- destruction by fire of J C Kershaw & Co. hat factory, Guildford Street, Luton;
- fire at Cross & Co. Ltd., Dunstable [see FSD/RR 1/18];
- fire at BR goods depot, Bute Street Station, Luton.
Level of description
file