Reference
FSD/PC10
Title
Album No. 9
Date free text
2 September 1968 to 12 August 1969
Production date
From: 1968 To: 1969
Scope and Content
Includes material as follows:
- large combined services train crash exercise in Leagrave*;
- fire at derelict hat factories in Bute Street, Luton*;
- fire caused by a firework at thatched Lidlington Parish Hall [see also FSD/PC 3]*;
- retirement of DO Danes*;
- detailed article on motorway accidents;
- new DO for North Beds, Alan Nixon Kinnersley*;
- acute need for more volunteer firemen;
- fire at restaurant on A6, Souldrop*;
- photograph (without names) of Shefford fire crew and their open top fire engine, August 1941*;
- fatal fire at 22 Station Road, Toddington [see FSD/RR 1/73]*;
- demonstration of experimental air bags for use in crash rescue work*;
- fire at Brickhill Drive Baptist Church*;
- fire at 77 Ashburnham Road, Bedford*;
- move of Shefford fire crew to new Fire Station off Hitchin Road*;
- photograph (without names) of eleven Shefford firemen and their “Tilley” fire engine posed in front of Shefford “Jubilee” Fire Station, 1906*;
- photograph (without names) of Shefford Fire crew and their Land Rover rescue vehicle outside “Jubilee” Fire Station, 1969*;
- new Barker’s Lane Fire Station, Bedford*;
- fire at Far East Chinese Restaurant and Broadway Club, Bedford, [see FSD/RR 1/51 and FSD/PC 27]*;
- fire at thatched cottages in Hillfoot Road, Shillington*;
- CFPO Worboys charge of apathy re village hall committees failures to apply for music and dancing licences;
- destruction by fire of Old Mill House, Kempston [see FSD/RR 1/53]*;
- visit of Bedford Modern School Fire Cadet Corps to France and Belgium*;
- arson by inmate at Bedford Prison;
- CFO Richards recommendation that wards at Fairfield Hospital be closed for fire safety reasons;
- threat by Beds FS personnel to ignore distress calls not involving fire, following national union decision, due to low rate of pension to widows of firemen killed in incidents not involving fire;
- fire caused by 13 year old boy trying to imitate a television fire-eating act;
- destruction by fire of North Herts & East Beds Sailing Club premises at the Blue Lagoon, Arlesey, possibly arson*;
- article on Toddington Volunteer fire crew, before the building of Toddington Fire Station;
- train derailment just south of Sandy Station*.
Level of description
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