Reference
FSD/PC15
Title
Album No. 14
Date free text
5 May 1973 to 25 April 1974
Production date
From: 1973 To: 1974
Scope and Content
Includes material as follows:
- presentation of BEM to CO Edna Henman, the only woman in Beds FS at the time, by Major Simon Whitbread*;
- fire at Easirest factory, 152 Bedford Road, Kempston [see FSD/RR 1/68]*;
- purchase of Range Rover light fire rescue vehicles for Beds FS, photographs show Toddington vehicle (Reg.No. BTM 83 L) and Biggleswade vehicle [see also FSD/PH 4/10]*;
- retirement of DO Raymond McLees and ADO Charles Newman*;
- article on new CFO Haley*;
- article on Luton Airport fire crews*;
- opening of Harrold Fire Station*;
- work to rule by Luton firemen in support of Glasgow Brigade and re their own pay claim;
- destruction by fire of Church Hall of Our Lady, Help of Christians, Castle Street, Luton*;
- meeting of CFOs of Beds and Bucks to discuss siting of two proposed new fire stations, at Woburn and Woburn Sands [never built];
- increase of 143% in rent to firemen in low-rent BCC homes;
- article from Beds Times & Independent of 1888 re new Bedford Fire Station;
- photograph of destruction by fire of Denton’s furniture store, Midland Road, Bedford, 1912.
- warning of danger from polystyrene ceiling tiles by ADO Hough; and manufacturers’ response;
- fatal fire at 6 Cox’s Way, Arlesey [see FSD/RR 1/76]*;
- fire at Bromham Mill [see FSD/RR 1/79]*;
- photograph of unnamed Biggleswade firemen and their horse drawn steamer engine in 1899*;
- fire at thatched Gate Cottage, Bolnhurst*;
- crash of an Aer Turas DC7 at Luton Airport*;
- photograph of gutted Ickwell Bury following a fire in 1936*;
- retirement of Chief Fire Officer John Belshaw and addition of Luton County Borough Fire Brigade to Beds FS;
- photograph of unnamed Biggleswade firemen and their motorised fire engine parading through Biggleswade Market Square to celebrate King George VI’s coronation, 1937*;
- fire at Sandy Tyre Depot, 58-60 High Street, Sandy*;
- fire at Warwick Road, Luton*;
- fire at probation service offices, Napier Road, Luton*;
- fire at thatched cottage, 8 Greenfield Road, Pulloxhill [see FSD/RR 1/201]*;
- temporary paralysing injury in Fm Chris Gulliver (Ampthill)*.
Level of description
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