Reference
FSD/PC17
Title
Album No. 16
Date free text
3 February 1975 to 21 November 1975
Production date
From: 1975 To: 1975
Scope and Content
Includes material as follows:
- fire at Mills Scaffold Co., Castle Street, Luton in which SO Tony Holloway was injured when the floor gave way*;
- CFO Haley’s admission that fires higher than the ninth floor of a tower block were out of Beds FS reach, following an exercise at Penhill Flats, Marsh Farm, Luton*;
- unease of companies in Luton and Dunstable that emergency fire calls would now be routed through FSHQ, Kempston rather than going direct to Studley Road Fire Station;
- promotion of PFCO Edna Henman to Assistant Inspector at HMI*;
- fire, possibly arson, at Up End Primary School, Kempston*;
- fine of fireman for driving a fire appliance without due care and attention following collision with a bus and car whilst answering an emergency call;
- article on rescue duties of Beds FS personnel*;
- fire at Abbey Corrugated Ltd., Eldon Way, Biggleswade;
- fatal fire at 94 Clapham Road, Bedford [see FSD/RR 1/110]*;
- arrival of Evelyn Hirst at FSHQ as new PFCO*;
- fire at Spinney Road, Luton*;
- fire at College Christmas Cracker Company, Elstow Storage Depot, Kempston Hardwick [see FSD/RR 1/116]*;
- attempts to lift a collapsed rhinoceros at Whipsnade Zoo*;
- interview with CFO Haley on fires in high-rise buildings following the film “Towering Inferno”;
- suicide and fire in High Town Road, Luton*;
- boy falling down a well in derelict cottages, Leighton Street, Woburn;
- attendance of CFO Haley at opening night of the film “Towering Inferno” at Granada Cinema*;
- fatal fire at 32 Brooklands Drive, Leighton Buzzard [see FSD/RR1/112]*;
- lump of ice falls through the roof of a house as the family watch a film about the sinking of the Titanic by an iceberg.
- fatal fire at 35 Russell Close, Kensworth [see FSD/RR 1/113]*;
- fire at Luton Red Cross divisional headquarters*;
- fire at Binny & Smith (Europe) Ltd., crayon manufacturers, Ampthill Road, Bedford [see FSD/RR 1/114]*;
- photograph of seven unnamed Stotfold firemen and their open top fire engine, c.1930*;
- group of eight named Stotfold firemen, c.1930*;
- fire at The Chequers PH, Wooton*;
- fatal fire at 6 London Row, Arlesey [see FSD/RR 1/115]*;
- fire at a BCC hostel for the homeless in a substantial building on Wenlock Street, Luton*;
- fire, possibly arson, at Whitehead C of E Lower School, Angels Way, Houghton Regis [see FSD/RR 1/126]*;
- ghosts blamed for two young children trapped in their bedroom (and needing FS rescue) at Russell House, Ashburnham Road, Bedford*;
- fire at Town Farm, Oakley*;
- magnesium fire at J.R.Yates Engineering Ltd., Dallow Road, Luton*.
Level of description
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