Scope and Content
Includes material as follows:
- retirement of ADO Fred Nicholls;
- destruction by fire of 4 C17 thatched cottages, 19-22 Park Road, Melchbourne;
- article on Luton Fire Station, photographs include named personnel;
- civil defence exercise coping with an airburst nuclear device explosion above Eversholt;
- statement by DCFO Drought that everyone in uniform should know first aid;
- fire at All Saints Church, Shaftesbury Road, Luton [see FSD/RR 1/159];
- article in Luton Commerce & Fair Trade Journal by SO Egan (Luton) re oil heating installations;
- lorry collision with a wall of The Crown PH, Houghton Regis;
- fire at Charles Petit leather factory, The Green, Harrold [see FSD/RR 1/21];
- Flemish articles re conferences in Belgium attended by CFO Goodman;
- fire in thatched cottages, Cotton End Road, Wilstead;
- protest by Fire Service personnel at the way BCC Fire Brigades' Committee dealt with wage negotiations;
- photograph of Shefford fire engine with Fm Bill Whitbread; Nobby Clarke; Fred Walker, and Harry Vickers and George Thomas of Biggleswade, c. 1900;
- fire at O A Morriss, bakery, corner of Arthur Street and Dunstable Street, Ampthill;
- destruction by fire of Greenfield Methodist Chapel;
- obituary of George Baker, former Chief Fire Officer of Leighton Buzzard Volunteer Brigade;
- intended destruction by fire of Coldharbour Farm, Woburn, as a public spectacle, onlookers to be charged 2/- a head;
- photographs of C Presland, S W Hill, R Skinner, William Pryor, R Aggett, D J Endersby, S E Surry, Charles Newman, J Danes, B Searle, G Jeeves, D Single, E Osborne, P Clarke, H Hogan, R G Baker, E C Payne, K Hutchinson, N Bond, M Moore, G Chapman, J Mander, A Huxtable, T Hillman and R Billington from Biggleswade, Sandy, Leighton Buzzard and Potton involved in Brigade competitions;
- photograph of practice fire at Vandyke Road, Leighton Buzzard;
- opening of new fire station at Lake Street, Leighton Buzzard;
- fatal fire at Whipsnade Zoo office block [see FSD/RR 1/26];
- fire at Swan Hotel, Leighton Buzzard;
- photograph of Chief Fire Officer of Luton Brigade, Alexander Andrew, pointing out the source of a fire at Luton Town Football Ground in 1923;
- fire at Luton Town Football Ground (1962);
- fatal fire at 50 High Street, Wrestlingworth [see FSD/RR 1/31].