Reference
FSD/PC12
Title
Album No. 11
Date free text
4 September 1970 to 10 September 1971
Production date
From: 1970 To: 1971
Scope and Content
Includes material as follows:
- encouragement of Beds FS of use of Fire Stations for social activities involving firemen’s wives;
- train derailment on Radwell Bridge*;
- threat of strike action by firemen over pay and conditions;
- fire at derelict warehouse in Duck Mill Lane, Bedford*;
- fire caused by a firework in row of thatched cottages, 211-214, Church End, Elstow*;
- fire at derelict wooden bungalow, St.John’s Street, Kempston*;
- new FSHQ, Southfields Road, Kempston;
- injuries to firemen in explosion at ebonite dust manufacturing works of James Ferguson & Sons, Hazelwood Road, Ampthill [see also FSD/PC 6];
- FS intention to break into and remove cars blocking access at multi-storey flats in Bedford (specifically Richbell, Chandos and Boswell Courts, Queen Street);
- fire at Jordan’s Mill, Market Square, Sandy [see FSD/RR 1/56]*;
- ammonia leak at Co-op Dairy, Britannia Road, Bedford*;
- fire at Blunham Primary School*;
- mother killing her baby by burning whilst the balance of her mind was disturbed, at Bancroft Avenue, Broom*;
- CFO Richards warning not to cut costs following Fire & Emergency Committee decision not to delay construction of Toddington Fire Station;
- feature on Dunstable Fire Station’s L4R motorway rescue tender*;
- photograph of funeral of Bedford Volunteer Fire Brigade Chief Fire Officer, Captain Augustus Hill at St.Paul’s church in 1912*;
- CFO Richards’ warning that hotels in Bedford did not meet fire regulations;
- fire in the thatched roof of 53 Main Road, Biddenham*;
- article on fire prevention;
- discovery of treasure trove of gold coins in burning cottage at Wymington [see Co/Inq 2/3/NB394];
- article on Biggleswade fire crew*.
Level of description
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