Reference
FSD/PC25
Title
Album No. 24
Date free text
8 August 1979 to 29 January 1980
Production date
From: 1979 To: 1980
Scope and Content
Includes material as follows:
- first female fire fighter recruit, Sheena Bakewell, rejected because too small;
- article on the history and practice of stubble burning;
- fire at Parks Restaurant, Market Square, Biggleswade*;
- article on National Fire Safety Week;
- article on training of fire cadets;
- fire at Novotex Ltd., Dallow Road, Luton in which two firemen needed hospital treatment [see FSD/RR 1/236]*;
- fatal fire at 6 Faldo Road, Bedford [see FSD/RR 1/234]*;
- possible cuts in FS budget by BCC;
- fire at Harrison Gibson Ltd., 23-7 High Street, Bedford [see FSD/RR 1/235]*;
- profile of Fm Roy Fox of Ampthill Fire Station*;
- demonstration by FBU members against proposed £100,000 cut in FS budget by BCC;
- fire in garage containing gas cylinders at Charles Street, Luton*;
- fire at mobile home at Adele Close, Sunnyside Trailer Park, Clifton [see FSD/RR 1/238]*;
- destruction by fire of Limbury Leisure Gardens Association sheds, Nunnery Lane, Luton*;
- Kempston Town Councillor Bill Davies’s reproof to FS re firework display at FSHQ;
- Beds FS emergency calls only work to rule in protest at BCC cuts in FS budget;
- evacuation of houses in Meppershall due to gas leak at the village hall;
- fire at St.Luke’s church, High Street, Leagrave;
- fire at empty office in King Street, Luton*;
- risk to new Stopsley Fire Station due to increased costs of construction;
- investigation of high level of uncertified absences in Beds FS;
- Beds FBU leader’s claim of RFFU and its members being held in contempt by his members;
- fatal fire at Brewery Tap PH, Park Street, Luton [see FSD/RR 1/241]*;
- fire at Julius Gardens, Luton*;
- fatal fire at 251 Sharpenhoe Road, Streatley [see FSD/RR 1/243]*;
- fire at Air Cuisine Ltd. Luton Airport [see FSD/RR 1/244]*;
- gas explosion in Ashwell Street, Leighton Buzzard*;
- spillage of toxic chemicals in Bedford Road, Kempston*.
Level of description
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