Reference
FSD/PC27
Title
Album No. 26
Date free text
25 January 1980 to 29 August 1980
Production date
From: 1980 To: 1980
Scope and Content
Includes material as follows:
- Beds FS first female fire fighter, Fwm Julie Thatcher (Shefford)*;
- Asian woman’s death after a cooker ignited her sari;
- fire at Jitty Cottage, Woburn Sands, firemen unable to reach the property quickly as no approach road ran within 70 yards despite owner’s repeated requests for such a road*;
- fire at thatched cottage, 28 High Street, Roxton*;
- article on fire at Vyse Sons & Co., 47-53 Bute Street, straw hat manufacturers, in 1930 which killed 8 people [see FSD/PH 5/2]*;
- article on fire safety;
- article on Bedford School, following the fire [see FSD/PC 23]*;
- article on Fm.Mick Gurr and his passion for collecting FS and military costume and items*;
- fire and murder, at Flat 1, Hilltop Court, Downs Road, Luton [see FSD/RR 1/252]*;
- fire, possibly arson, at Castaways Club, A6, Souldrop*;
- fire in derelict factory, Bute Street, Luton*;
- continued serious shortage of personnel at Ampthill Fire Station;
- fire at thatched cottage at Ivy Road, Wilstead*;
- rescue from a stalled Ferris Wheel at Flitwick [see FSD/RR 1/251]*;
- Luton FS personnel attack budget cutbacks as unsafe;
- fire at Cross Paperware, High Street South, Dunstable [see FSD/RR 1/253]*;
- fire, possibly arson, at Thrales Close, Marsh Farm, Luton*;
- trial of night-club owner, Richard Bayliss, who gave himself up after ten years, responsible for fires at The Broadway Club [see FSD/PC 10 & 11];
- fire, possibly arson, at Flint Close, Marsh farm, Luton*;
- fire at Ketrel’s re-upholsterers, c/o Mill Street and New Bedford Road, Luton*;
- rescue from a lift in a tower block, Hooker’s Court, Hockwell Ring, Luton*;
- continued false alarms from faults in smoke detectors caused by the weather, at The Cedars OPH, Ampthill;
- numerous articles on floods throughout the county*.
Level of description
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