Reference
FSD/PC16
Title
Album No. 15
Date free text
19 April 1974 to 7 February 1975
Production date
From: 1974 To: 1975
Scope and Content
Includes material as follows:
- fire at thatched cottage in Keysoe Row*;
- fatal collision of BAC 1-11 with Piper Aztec light aircraft on the tarmac of Luton Airport*;
- fire at Times Furnishing store, 53 High Street, Bedford [see FSD/RR 1/101]*;
- fire involving 400 polystyrene blocks on flyover at Park Street, Luton*;
- promotion of DO Kinnersley to become Assistant Inspector with HMI*;
- coach crash on M1 in which crash barrier became a guillotine, penetrating the coach*;
- fire at Plume of Feathers PH, Bridge Street, Luton*;
- lightning strike at two unoccupied cottages in Church Lane, Stagsden*;
- article on White Watch, Bedford Fire Station*;
- fire at Fox Brothers clothing manufacturers, 35/37 John Street, Luton [see FSD/RR 1/104]*;
- demonstration of newly acquired Angus Turbex Water Turbine (a device to pump foam) at FSHQ*;
- claims of deteriorating equipment by Luton firemen;
- article on Beds FS including the reminiscences of T.B.Goodman, includes photograph of fire crew during the blitz and of remains of James Turner & Sons Ltd., Lime Street, following a fire [see FSD/PH 12]*;
- colour photograph of horse drawn steam pump, built about 1874, on display at FSHQ, with Fm Gurr and Goddard*;
- Beds firemen’s work to rule over poor conditions at Studley Road Fire Station, Luton;
- explosion at 22-24 Redman Gardens, Biggleswade [see FSD/RR 1/106]*;
- fire at Woburn Experimental Farm (Crawley Mill Farm), Mill Lane, Husborne Crawley, possibly arson*;
- shorter working week offered to personnel involved in training and fire prevention to make the job more attractive;
- photographs of Beds FS demonstration*;
- article on commencement of Beds FS own training scheme for recruits (who had previously been trained at Leicester, Derby and Kent)*;
- article on destruction by fire of the Maythorn & Son Ltd., car dealers and engineers, Market Square, Biggleswade in May 1923*;
- murder of a baby by a man pouring paraffin into its pram and setting it alight at 3B Rothsay Road [see FSD/RR 1/105]*;
- fire in new design centre at Kingsbrook School, Oak Road, Bedford [see FSD/RR 1/109]*;
- £72,000 cut in Beds FS budget.
Level of description
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