Reference
FSD/PC22
Title
Album No. 21
Date free text
19 January 1978 to 27 October 1978
Production date
From: 1978 To: 1978
Scope and Content
Includes material as follows:
- fatal fire at 178 Stanbridge Road, Leighton Buzzard [see FSD/RR 1/189];
- fire in the restaurant of the Flying Horse Inn, Clophill*;
- article on Dan Albone of Biggleswade and his invention inter alia, of a steam powered fire engine, includes photograph of Albone sitting on the engine in 1908*;
- photograph of personnel of Biggleswade Auxiliary Fire Service, c.1940s. Only name listed is of Pat Johnson.*;
- sealing off Greenfield due to a petrol leak in underground telephone ducting beneath the High Street*
- fatal collision of a circus lorry with R.E.Harrison Ltd., china shop, Windsor Street, Luton*;
- Beds FS participation in a Health & Safety Executive training film “Watch That Space”*;
- further pressure for Bromham Bypass following another RTA on Bromham Bridge [see also FSD/PC 20]*;
- calls by FS for service to be nationalised;
- fire on a Boeing Britannia 737 on landing at Luton Airport*;
- suspected arson re fatal fire at 48 Salisbury Road, Luton [see FSD/RR 1/208]*;
- fire on board a train near Linslade tunnel*;
- lightning strike on Swifts Green Close, Luton*;
- fire in new house, plot 73 Needwood Road, Bedford [see FSD/RR 1/203]*;
- article on new fire control system at FSHQ*;
- group photograph of seven unnamed Shefford firemen in the grounds of a large house about the turn of the century*;
- fire at Mr.Nice ice cream factory, Tavistock Place, Bedford*;
- group photograph of unnamed Potton firemen and their horse drawn appliance outside Potton Fire Station after winning first prize at a Fire Brigades competition, 1882*;
- destruction by controlled explosion of a terraced house at Argyll Street, Bedford as part of the making of an episode of BBC comedy series “Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em”. Plus details of other "incidents" undertaken in Bedfordshire for the series by Michael Crawford.*;
- article on training of Beds FS cadets*;
- CFO Haley’s criticism of primitive conditions at Beds FS training school headquarters at Dunstable Fire Station*;
- death of a London Brick Company Fire Brigade fireman when his “Green Goddess” engine overturned on A5140 at Marston Moretaine*.
Level of description
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