Reference
FSD/PC20
Title
Album No. 19
Date free text
2 December 1976 to 14 September 1977
Production date
From: 1976 To: 1977
Scope and Content
Includes material as follows:
- use of new mobile canteen by Beds FS*;
- formation of trade union for retained firemen;
- death of former CFO T.B.Goodman aged 66*;
- lack of applications by women to join Beds FS twelve months after the Sex Discrimination Act became law;
- design by Cranfield Institute of Technology for a safer cab for fire appliances;
- article on an exercise to put out petrol fire*;
- fire at Fleur de Lys PH, Mill Street, Bedford*;
- fire at Bridge Hotel, St.Mary’s Street, Bedford [see FSD/RR 1/162]*;
- £180,000 cut in FS budget;
- fatal fire at 133 Hitchin Road, Luton [see FSD/RR 1/149];
- fatal fire at 77 Woburn Road, Kempston [see FSD/RR 1/150]*;
- group photograph of unnamed Shillington and Stondon firemen of the Ampthill District Auxiliary Fire Service in the yard of the Crown PH, Shillington during World War Two*;
- article on reconstruction of Westoning tanker explosion by investigating scientists*;
- arson at Air Training Corps base in the grounds of Icknield High School, Riddy Lane, Luton*;
- death of a man through soaking in petrol which ignited whilst working on the tank of his car at 42 Pipit Rise, Bedford [see FSD/RR 1/163];
- issue of senior firemen needing eye tests;
- opening of a new bar at FSHQ social club*;
- explosion of a van at Ampthill Road, Maulden [see FSD/RR 1/165]*;
- crash landing of a Boeing 720 at Luton Airport*;
- CFO Haley’s warning about the use of electric blankets;
- demands for Bromham bypass following fatal accident on Bromham Bridge;
- advice to businesses on reduction of the risk of malicious fires;
- fatal fire in a car at Church Lane, Oakley [see FSD/RR 1/167]*;
- fire at Stotfold Carpets Ltd., 66 Regent Street, Stotfold [see FSD/RR 1/169]*;
- fire at 70 Havelock Road, Luton [see FSD/RR 1/168];
- institution of night patrols at Fairfield Hospital following malicious fires;
- priority to be given to building a new fire station in Woburn and north Luton by BCC;
- fire aboard a Britannia Airways Boeing 737 at Luton Airport en route from Birmingham to Palma*;
- fatal fire at 3 Shakespeare Road, Bedford [see FSD/RR 1/176]*;
- fire in empty houses used as drawings/records storage by E.W. Hudson (Engineering) Ltd., at 3-5 Holly Street, Luton [see FSD/RR 1/182]*;
- arson at St.Ninian’s URC Church Hall, Luton;
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