Reference
FSD/PC24
Title
Album No. 23
Date free text
30 March 1979 to 9 August 1979
Production date
From: 1979 To: 1979
Scope and Content
Includes material as follows:
- fire at 20 Willowbank Walk, Leighton Buzzard [see FSD/RR 1/220]*;
- fire at SBDC offices, Grove House, High Street North, Dunstable [see FSD/RR 1/240]*;
- fire, possibly arson, at derelict house in Henry Street, Luton*;
- fire, probably arson, at former Methodist chapel, at industrial college, Chapel Street, Luton*;
- fractured gas main at Sundon Park, Luton*;
- article on National Institute of Agricultural Engineering, Wrest Park Volunteer Fire Brigade, including photograph of the Wrest Park private Brigade around 1900*;
- fire at Kempston Barracks, Bedford Road, Kempston*;
- fire at Co-op Dairies, Manor Road, Luton*;
- fire, possibly arson, at Cash & Carry warehouse, Bury Park Road, Luton*;
- rescue of children from a storm drain beneath Church Road, Flitwick.
- article on arson and its perpetrators;
- arson at Aspley Guise sewage works*;
- FS personnel work to rule answering emergency calls only due to alleged victimisation of a retired colleague by BCC;
- fire prevention demonstration by Harrold Fire Station personnel*;
- CFO Haley’s appeal for recruits for Ampthill Fire Station;
- fatal fire at The Elms, Piper’s Lane, Aley Green, near Caddington, [see FSD/RR 1/226]*;
- refusal of FS union members to use a mobile control and de-contamination unit unless manned by a full-time crew;
- Fire Brigades Union members demonstration outside County Hall due to fear of BCC recognition of rival Retained Fire Fighters’ Union*;
- fatal fire at 11 Westbury Court, Torridge Rise, Bedford [see FSD/RR 1/228]*;
- fatal fire at 1 Greycote, Shortstown, Bedford [see FSD/RR 1/227]*;
- five firemen trapped in a lift!;
- investigation of bitterness between full time and retained firemen following firemen’s strike;
- fatal fire at 189-191 Dunstable Road, Luton [see FSD/RR 1/231]*;
- fire at Toddington Manor Farm during experimental method of drying hay*;
- fire at Rusco Pharmaceuticals, Albone Way, Biggleswade*;
- fire at Unigate Dairy, Burr Street, Luton*;
- crash of a USAF Fairchild A10 Thunderbolt during an air display at RAF Chicksands*;
- article on antique fire engines at the Shuttleworth Collection, Old Warden, with photograph of a 1913 Shand Mason New Volunteer steam fire engine of Ampthill Fire Brigade*;
- first Beds FS trainee woman fire fighter, based at Shefford;
- vigilante group formed to find an arsonist at Acworth Court tower block, Hockwell Ring, Luton;
- fatal RTA at Sheep Lane cross-roads, A5, Heath & Reach [see FSD/RR 1/233]*;
- report of trial of man guilty of setting fire to Bedford School [see FSD/PC 23]*.
Level of description
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